Letters from China & JapanH.S. King & Company, 1875 - 210 páginas |
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... amused in watching the natives chattering and diving round the steamer . Numbers of those curious copper - coloured creatures , who hardly resemble anything human , with their hair dyed bright red and standing straight on end , came ...
... amused in watching the natives chattering and diving round the steamer . Numbers of those curious copper - coloured creatures , who hardly resemble anything human , with their hair dyed bright red and standing straight on end , came ...
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... amused ourselves bargaining with the hosts of good - looking Cingalese who besieged the Hotel offering tortoise shell , and all kinds of curiosities for sale at prices three times their value , and let- ting you have them ultimately ...
... amused ourselves bargaining with the hosts of good - looking Cingalese who besieged the Hotel offering tortoise shell , and all kinds of curiosities for sale at prices three times their value , and let- ting you have them ultimately ...
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... amused when you hear that there were only twelve ladies at the ball , and that this was the greatest number that has ever yet been attained to at Foo - Chow . The proportion of men being about four to one , the way we twelve de- voted ...
... amused when you hear that there were only twelve ladies at the ball , and that this was the greatest number that has ever yet been attained to at Foo - Chow . The proportion of men being about four to one , the way we twelve de- voted ...
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... amused with the enthusiasm which has seized us ; but for one thing my often taking exercise without the gates of our own little domain , is compassed with difficulties , my amuse- ments therefore , during our residence here , must be ...
... amused with the enthusiasm which has seized us ; but for one thing my often taking exercise without the gates of our own little domain , is compassed with difficulties , my amuse- ments therefore , during our residence here , must be ...
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... went with H. to see the cadets at their gunnery drill in the imaginary ship , and was much amused by that part of the performance when some of them acted being killed and wounded in order that their 68 Letters from China .
... went with H. to see the cadets at their gunnery drill in the imaginary ship , and was much amused by that part of the performance when some of them acted being killed and wounded in order that their 68 Letters from China .
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