Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions (1814)
Alexander, William, 1767-1816 · London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer · leaf 19
ss, and in the violent exercise of hunting andshooting in the wild regions of Tartary, which he continuedwith unabated zeal almost to the period of life above men-tioned. He always commenced public business at two orthree in the morning, and gave audience to foreign ambassa-dors at that early hour,… … e<3 ~ PLATE Iff.THE FISHING CORMORANTS. The Leu-tze, or fishing cormorant of China, is the pelica-nus sinensis, and resembles very much the common cor-morant of England, which, we are told by naturalists, wasonce trained up to catch fish, pretty much in the samemanner as those of China are. They…
Clothing and dress
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