Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 124
cessary to makeup an amount of any size. Exchang-ing eighteen shillings English for brasscash, the weight of them amounted toseventy-two pounds, which had to becarried by the coolies. These cash havea square hole in the middle, and arestrung together upon a piece of strawtwist. Should the straw… … MODE OF CARRYINGCASH AND BABIES. A PAI-FANG, OR WIDOWS ARCH. These are often very fine structures instone, wonderfully carved, or in woodhighly decorated. It is not uncommonto enter a town under quite a successionof them. Very fine ones are often foundat the entrance of very squalid villages.They…
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