 Carriages are not used here, lint all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders of men. All the inhabitants of distinction make use of litters. Chinese women are never seen in the streets, and Tartar women but seldom. The European...  A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer - Page 298by George Newenham Wright - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 612 pages
...dealer, as each member is answerable ior all the rest. Carnages are not used here, but all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders...quay, on the bank of the river. Nearly a league from Canton ia the Boat-town, which consists of about 468 CANTON— CAN UTE. 40,000 barks, of various kinds,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 608 pages
...dealer, as each member is answerable for all the rest. Carriages are not used here, but all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders...European factories, to wit, the Dutch, French, Swedish, banish and English, are situated on a very commodious quay, on the bank of the river. Nearly a league... | |
 | China - 1833 - 530 pages
...dealer, as each member is answerable for all the rest. " Carriages are not used here, but all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders...women are: never seen in the streets, and Tartar women bat seldom. The, • European factories, to wit, the Dutch, French, Swedish, Danish and English, are... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...dealer, as each member is answerable for all the rest. Carriages are not used here, but all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders...of distinction make use of litters. Chinese women ar^ never seen in the streets, and Tartar women but seldom. The European factories, to wit, the Dutch,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...dealer, as each member is- answerable for all the rest. Carriages are not used here, but all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders...seen in the streets, and Tartar women but seldom. The different factories are situated on a very commodious quay, on the bank of the river. Nearly a league... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 502 pages
...answerable for all the rest. Carriages are not used here, but all burdens are transported on liamboo poles laid across the shoulders of men. All the inhabitants...and Tartar women but seldom. The European factories, viz. the Dutch, French, Swedish, Danish, and British, are situated on a very commodious quay, on the... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...Carnages are not used here, but all burdens ¡ are transported on bamboo poles laid across the -houUers of men. All the inhabitants of distinction ! make...seen in the streets, and Tartar women but seldom. The different factories are situated on n very commodious quay, on the bank of the river. Nearly a league... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 618 pages
...across the shoulders of men. All the inhabitants of distinction make use of litters. Chinese women an; never seen in the streets, and Tartar women but seldom....English, are situated on a very commodious quay, on the tank of the river. Nearly a league from Canton is the Boat-town, which consists of about 40,000 barks,... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...dealer, as each member is answerable for all the rest. Carriages are not used here, lint all burdens are transported on bamboo poles laid across the shoulders...quay, on the bank of the river. Nearly a league from Canton is the Boat-town, which consists of about CANTON— CANUTE. 40,000 barks, of various kinds,... | |
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