Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 68
and care forthe sick and dying do not characterisethe people of China. If a man is sickto death he is of no more use, and whyshould time and care be wasted on him ?This coolie in the picture was one ofMrs. Bishops carriers, who fell sick bvthe way, and though he had been acompanion of the other men… … THE DYING COOLIE. THE MODE OF SEPULCHRETHROUGHOUTSOUTHERN CHINA. A horseshoe-shaped excavation ismade in a hillside facing south, thewhole construction being faced withstone. There is in this mode of ar-ranging graves a similarity to thatadopted by the Etruscans.
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