Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 102
earn howmuch they profit by the trade theforeigner brings, and by the effortsof the missionaries to ameliorate thecondition of the very poor by theirhospitals. Hangchow is a great centreof the silk trade. The whole city, whichhas a population of 700,000, and theprincipal street of which is five… … THE WEST GATE OFHANGCHOW. THE GATE OF A FORBIDDEN CITY. In contrast to Hangchow, though only two miles from atreaty port, it is believed that no foreigner has ever hadthe foolhardiness to enter this gate. It is a city of thefifth order only ; but such is the hatred and detestationin which the…
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