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 63
e matchlocks resemble so much the old com-mon matchlock of the Portuguese, that it has been sup-posed these people first introduced them into China, wherehowever it is sufficiently determined, gunpowder was infamiliar use many centuries before any communication was A SOLDIER WITH HIS MATCHLOCK.… … <& ! S 1 PLATE XIV. A PORTER CARRYING GOODS. It has long been known that the ingenious Chinese, takingadvantage of the constancy with which the wind blows inthe same direction, applied a sail to assist the progress oftheir land carriages; but the late British Embassy has fur-nished us with…
Clothing and dress
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