SIGHTS AND SCENES IN CANTON.
The party remained three days at Canton. They rose early every morning,
and went on excursions through and around the city, and it is fair to
say that they did not have a single idle moment. Each of the boys made
careful notes of what he saw and heard, and by the end of their stay
both had enough to fill a small volume. They returned to Hong-kong on
the fourth day, and on the morning after their return they sat down to
write the story of their adventures. But before they began writing the
projected letter a discussion arose between them, which was about like
this:
They expected the steamer to arrive from America in a day or two, and it
would doubtless bring letters for them, which would determine their
future movements. They expected to return home by way of San Francisco,
as they had come; but it was by no means improbable that they would keep
on to the westward, and so go around the world by way of India and
Europe.
"What is the use of writing up our Canton experiences," said Frank,
"till we know what we are to do? If we go home by San Francisco, we will
have plenty of time on the steamer; and if we go on to the west, we will
have to go by steamer too; and then we will have time enough between
Hong-kong and the first port we stop at. Why should we be in a hurry to
write up our account, when, in any case, we shall have the time to do so
while we are at sea?"
Fred admitted the force of the argument, but thought there would be an
advantage in writing while the subject was fresh in their minds. While
they were debating the pros and cons of the case, the Doctor came into
the room, and the question was appealed to him. After careful
deliberation, he rendered a decision that covered the case to the
perfect satisfaction of both the disputants.
"It will be several days, at any rate," said he, "before we can leave
Hong-kong, whether we go east or west. Now, I advise you to take an
hour each day for writing up your story of Canton, and you will then
have plenty of time for sight-seeing. You will have ended your writing
before we leave, and then can devote your time at sea to other things
which the voyage will suggest."
His suggestion was adopted, and they at once set about their work,
determined to write two hours daily till they had described Canton so
fully that their friends would know exactly what was to be seen there.
They divided the work, as they had done on previous occasions, one of
them making a description of a certain part of their route, and the
other taking another portion of it. When they were through with it, they
put the two stories together, and found that they fitted to perfection.
Here is what they wrote:
"Canton is the capital of the province of Kwang-tung, and its name in
English is a corruption of the Chinese one. The people who live there
call it 'Kwang-tung-sang-shing,' and the Portuguese call it Kam-tom, and
they write it that way. It is called the City of Rams, just as Florence
is called the Beautiful City, and Genoa the Haughty; and the Chinese who
live there are very proud of it. The climate is warm, the thermometer
rising to 85° or 90° in the summer, and rarely going below 50° in
winter. Occasionally ice forms to the thickness of heavy paper, and once
in five or ten years there will be a slight fall of snow, which
astonishes all the children, and many of the older people.
"The population is said to be about a million, on land and water. Those
who live in boats are about sixty thousand. The city was founded more
than two thousand years ago, according to the Chinese historians, but it
was not surrounded with a wall until the eleventh century. The wall
to-day is the same that was first built, but it has been repaired and
changed a good deal in the time it has stood, and some new parts have
been added. The circuit of the walls is about seven miles, but there are
suburbs that now form a part of the city, so that it is a journey of not
less than ten miles to go around Canton.
"There are sixteen gates to the city, and each has a name that
designates its position. There are two pagodas near the West Gate, and
there are a hundred and twenty-four temples, pavilions, and halls inside
the walls of Canton. Then there are four prisons, and there is an
execution ground, where many a poor fellow has lost his head. The
prisons are like all such establishments in China, and a great many men
would prefer death to incarceration in one of these horrible places.
"We don't know positively whether there are a million people in Canton
or not. We took the figures from the guide-book, just as everybody else
takes them, and we want to acknowledge our indebtedness to it. The
guide-book is very useful in a strange country, as it tells you in a few
minutes what you might spend hours or days in learning. It gives you an
outline which you must fill in for yourself by practical observation;
and unless you have it with you, there is a great deal that you may
miss, if your time is limited, and you are compelled to do your
sight-seeing rapidly.
[Illustration: STREET SCENE IN CANTON.]
"When we came in sight of Canton, we saw some buildings that rose far
above all others, and very naturally we asked what they were. We were
somewhat taken aback when told that they were pawnbrokers'
establishments, and of course they were among the things we went to look
at. They were filled from top to bottom with clothing and other things,
and our guide explained to us that the Chinese are in the habit of
pawning everything they are not using, for the double reason that they
get money which they can use, and at the same time they save the trouble
of taking care of the property. At the beginning of winter they pawn
their summer clothes, and at the beginning of summer they pawn their
winter clothes. All other things on which they can borrow money they
take to the pawn-shop, even when they are not obliged to have the cash.
It saves the trouble of storing the goods themselves, and running the
risk of having them stolen.
"We went through one of the pawn-shops, climbing stairway after
stairway, and being almost stifled in the narrow and musty places we
were obliged to go through. The goods were done up in packages, each one
of them being labelled and ticketed, and there was a register
down-stairs, so that any desired package could be found when wanted.
Diamonds and other articles of great value were kept in safes near the
basement, and the least costly goods were near the roof. There must have
been many thousands of things stowed away in this pawn-shop. The
building was said to be fire-proof, and its great height was intended to
secure it against thieves.
"Close by the door of this establishment there was an opium den, where a
dozen or more men were intoxicating themselves with opium, or sleeping
off the effects of what they had already taken. We just looked in for a
moment; it was so much like the place of the same kind that we saw in
Shanghai that we did not care to stay, and, besides, the smell was very
bad and the heat almost stifling. The Cantonese are said to be just as
inveterate smokers of the deadly drug as the people of the North; in
fact, it is about the same all over China, and with all classes that can
afford to indulge in the vice. Only the middle and poorer classes go to
the shops to smoke opium. The rich people can enjoy the luxury at home,
and some of them have rooms in their houses specially fitted up for it.
"We saw a good many temples, and went through some of them, but, on the
whole, they were rather disappointing, as they were not so fine as those
at Pekin, and far behind those of Japan. The most interesting of the
pagodas is the one known as the 'Five-storied Pagoda,' so called
because it is five stories high. It stands on a hill that overlooks the
whole city on one side, and a large cemetery on the other; and when you
have climbed to the top, the view is very fine. The roofs of the houses
are of all shapes and kinds, and the streets are so narrow that you can
see very few of them as you look down from the top of the pagoda. On the
one hand you have a densely peopled city of the living, and on the other
an equally densely peopled city of the dead. Our guide said the cemetery
had more inhabitants than the city; and when we asked him how many
people lived there, he said 'Many millions.' You have to come to China
to learn that the people in a cemetery are supposed to live there.
[Illustration: FIVE-STORIED PAGODA.]
"And yet the guide was not so far out of the way, according to the
Chinese idea. The Chinese bring food to the graves of their friends, and
leave it there as an offering. The spirits of the dead are believed to
linger around the spot and to eat this food, but it is really devoured
by the priests and others who stay around the cemetery, and what they do
not eat or carry away is consumed by the birds. At certain seasons they
have grand festivals, when many thousands of people go to the cemeteries
with offerings for the dead, and good things for themselves. The affair
is more like a picnic than a ceremony of mourning; and when it breaks
up, the mourners go to the theatre or some other place of amusement. The
best burial-place is on a hill-side, and the tomb is made in the form of
a terrace, or rather of three terraces, with steps leading up to them.
As you look at it from a little distance, the tomb has the shape of a
horseshoe, or, better still, of 'Omega,' the last letter of the Greek
alphabet.
[Illustration: HORSESHOE OR OMEGA GRAVE.]
"Our guide said that not only do they make offerings in the cemeteries
to the spirits of the dead, but they have shrines in their houses where
the dead are worshipped. To prove what he said was true, he took us into
a house and showed one of these shrines with bowls of rice and fruit,
cups of tea, and other things, on a table. He explained that when the
offerings were made they sent for a priest, who came with two men to
assist him; and while the priest stood behind the table and repeated his
prayers, one of his attendants pounded on a drum, and the other rang a
bell. There was a fire in front of the shrine, and during the time the
priest was performing the man who gave the feast knelt before the fire
and burned some mock money, made out of silver paper in imitation of
real coin. When the affair was over, the priest took all that he wanted
from the table, and the remainder was eaten by the company who had been
invited.
[Illustration: PRESENTING FOOD TO THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.]
"Not a great distance from the five-storied pagoda we saw the leper
hospital, where the unfortunate people who suffer from leprosy are
compelled to live, and soon to die. The sight was a horrible one, and we
did not want to stay long among the sufferers. We had expected to find a
large building, like a hospital in America, but instead of this there
were several small buildings, grouped together in a little village, some
of the houses having garden patches near them. The people were lying or
sitting around in the sun, and some few of them were at work in the
gardens. The most were not able to do anything, as they were suffering
from the disease, which was slowly killing or crippling them.
[Illustration: A LEPER.]
"The guide said there were two kinds of leprosy, the 'wet' and the
'dry.' In the wet leprosy the body of the victim abounds in running
sores, while in the dry there is nothing of the sort, and the appearance
of the skin is not greatly different from what it is in health. The
disease generally attacks the joints of the hands or feet, particularly
those of the former, and the sufferer loses the first joint of the
fingers and thumbs at about the same time. Then, in a few months, he
loses the second joints, and in two or three months more the third
joints go. We saw lepers in all the stages of the disease--some with the
first joints of the hands gone, others who had lost the second joints,
and others the third; while others, again, had lost the hands at the
wrists. There seems to be no cure for most of the forms of the leprosy;
and when a man is attacked with it, he must go at once to the hospital,
no matter whether he is rich or poor. And when he has gone there, he
generally remains till death relieves him from his sufferings.
[Illustration: A LITERARY STUDENT.]
"One of the curious places we saw was the Hall of Examinations. This is
a large enclosed space, having rows on rows of little cells, where the
candidates for the literary degree are examined once in every three
years. There are eleven thousand of these cells, and each cell is just
large enough for one man to occupy. The candidates are put in these
cells, and each man is furnished with a sheet of paper and a pen. He
must write on the paper any given page of the Chinese books called 'The
Classics' without mistake or alteration, and he is not allowed to try a
second time until the next examination comes round. There are men who
keep on trying all their lives for the degree, and they tell of one man
who succeeded after he was eighty years old. The candidates try all
sorts of tricks to smuggle in copies of the books on which they are to
be examined, and also extra sheets of paper; but they are carefully
searched, and everything of the sort is taken away from them.
[Illustration: A LITERARY GRADUATE IN HIS ROBES OF HONOR.]
"There is a story in Pidgin-English verse of how a Chinese student
befriended an American, who was a photographer by profession. The
American believed that one good turn deserved another, and so, when the
examination time came round, he photographed 'The Classics' on the
finger-nails of his Oriental friend. The student was allowed to wear
spectacles during his examination, and so he bought a pair of
magnifying-glasses that enabled him to read every word that he wanted.
He came out at the head of his class, and was no doubt very thankful
that he had done a kindly action towards a stranger.
[Illustration: A SEDAN-CHAIR WITH FOUR BEARERS.]
"But the great sights of Canton we have not yet mentioned. These are the
streets, and they are by all odds the finest we have seen in the
country. They are very narrow, few of them being more than six or eight
feet wide, and some of them less than the former figure. Not a single
wheeled carriage can move in all Canton, and the only mode of locomotion
is by means of sedan-chairs. We had chairs every day with four bearers
to each, and it was strange to see how fast the men would walk in the
dense crowds without hitting any one. They kept calling out that they
were coming, and somehow a way was always made for them. Several times,
when we met other chairs, it was no easy matter to get by, and once we
turned into a side street to allow a mandarin's chair to pass along. We
did knock down some things from the fronts of stores, and several times
the tops of our chairs hit against the perpendicular sign-boards that
hung from the buildings. There are great numbers of signs, all of them
perpendicular, and they are painted in very gaudy colors, so that the
effect is brilliant. Sometimes, as you look ahead, the space between the
two sides of the street is quite filled with these signs, so that you
cannot see anything else.
"The streets are not at all dirty, and in this respect are vastly
different from those of any other city we have seen in China. The
authorities evidently pay some attention to keeping them clean and
preventing the accumulation of dirt. The fronts of many shops are fully
open to the street, and the merchants know how to arrange their wares in
the most tempting manner. You see lots of pretty things, and are
constantly tempted to buy, and it was very well for us that we agreed
not to buy anything till the last day, which we were to devote to
shopping.
[Illustration: A SMALL FOOT WITH A SHOE ON IT.]
"Nearly all the vast crowd in the streets consisted of men; now and then
a woman was visible, but only rarely, except near the river-side, where
there were some of the class that live on the water. We met some of the
small-footed women, and it was really painful to see them stumping about
as if they were barely able to stand. Double your fist and put it down
on the table, and you have a fair resemblance of the small foot of a
Chinese woman; and if you try to walk on your fists, you can imagine how
one of these ladies gets along. Some of them have to use canes to
balance themselves, and running is quite out of the question. The foot
is compressed in childhood, and not allowed to grow much after five or
six years of age. The compression is done by tight bandages, that give
great pain at first, and sometimes cause severe inflammation.
[Illustration: PEASANT WOMAN WITH NATURAL FEET.]
"We were rather impatient for the last day, when we could do our
shopping and buy the things for our friends at home. There are so many
fine things for sale in Canton that it is hard to determine where to
begin and where to leave off. A great many people keep on buying till
their money is all gone, and some of them do not stop even then.
"The first things we looked at in our shopping tour were silks, and we
found them of all kinds and descriptions that you could name. There were
silks for dresses and silks for shawls, and they were of all colors,
from snowy white to jet-black. Some people say that white and black are
not colors at all; but if they were turned loose among the silks of
Canton, perhaps they might change their minds. It is said that there are
fifty thousand people in Canton engaged in making silk and other
fabrics, and these include the embroiderers, of whom there are several
thousands. Chinese embroidery on silk is famous all over the world, and
it has the advantage over the embroidery of most other countries in
being the same on one side that it is on the other. We have selected
some shawls that we think will be very pretty when they are at home.
They are pretty enough now, but there are so many nice things all around
that the articles we have selected look just a little common.
"One good thing about going on a shopping excursion in Canton is that
most of the establishments for the sale of different articles are
grouped together, just as they are said to be in the bazaars of Cairo
and Damascus. Thus we find most of the silk-dealers in Silk Street,
those who sell mirrors and similar work are in Looking-glass Street, and
the workers in ivory are in a street by themselves. Then there is
Curiosity Street (or Curio Street, as it is generally called), where you
can buy all sorts of odds and ends of things, old and new, which come
under the head of Chinese curiosities. Lacquered ware and porcelain have
their especial quarters; and so when you are in the region of any
particular trade, you do not have to walk about much to make your
purchases. In the vicinity of the river there are several large concerns
where they have a general assortment of goods, and you may buy lacquer
and porcelain, silk and ivory, and nearly everything else that is
produced in Canton, under one roof.
"We have already described lacquer and cloisonné work in writing from
Japan. The Chinese productions in the same line are so much like the
Japanese that a description of one will do for the other. Some of the
shapes are different, and it is not difficult, after a little practice,
to distinguish the Chinese from the Japanese; but the modes of working
are essentially the same. All things considered, we like the Japanese
lacquer better than the Chinese, as it has more variety, and the
Japanese seem to be more cunning than the Canton people in making those
bewildering little boxes with secret drawers and nooks and a great
variety of shapes. But when it comes to ivory carvings, we have
something else to say.
"You can hardly have dreamed of the beautiful things we found in Canton
cut out of ivory. There were combs and brooches so delicate that it
seemed as if they could be blown to pieces by a breath; and there were
boxes and card-cases with representations of landscapes, and men and
animals on them so small that we needed a microscope to see them
distinctly. In one shop we saw the whole tusk of an elephant carved from
one end to the other so closely that you could hardly put a pin on it
without hitting some part of the work. They told us that the tusk had
been sent there by the gentleman who killed the elephant in India, and
he was having it carved to keep as a trophy. The carving had cost six
hundred dollars; and if it had been done in America, it would have cost
nearer six thousand. Skilled labor is cheap in China, just as unskilled
labor is, and it is astonishing for how little a man can be employed on
the kind of work that would bring a high price in Europe or America.
"Then there were carvings in tortoise-shell of a great many kinds, and
all the forms you could think of, together with many you could not. The
Chinese tortoise-shell work used to be the best in the world; but those
who know about it say that it is now equalled by the productions of
Naples and Florence, both in fineness and cheapness. Then they had some
beautiful things in silver filigree and in bronzes, and we bought a few
of each, so as to show what Canton can do in this line.
[Illustration: A TABLET CARVED IN IVORY.]
"But such fans! such fans! They were so pretty that we couldn't keep our
eyes off them, and we bought more of them, perhaps, than we needed. In
one shop we would find something so nice that we couldn't see how it
could be surpassed, and so we would buy it; and in the next we found
something nicer yet, and so we had to buy that. Anybody who has a liking
for fans, and hasn't a mint of money, had better keep out of the stores
of Canton, or he will run a risk of being ruined. The varieties are so
great that we cannot begin to name them. There were fans on silk, and
fans on paper; fans carved in ivory, tortoise-shell, sandal-wood; fans
of feathers from various birds, with rich paintings right on the surface
of the feathers; and a great many other fans besides. There was one
with frame and sticks of sandal-wood, beautifully carved, while the body
was of painted silk. There were groups of figures on each side of the
fan, and each figure had a face painted on ivory which was afterwards
glued to the silk. It was the prettiest thing to be found for any price
we could afford, and you can be sure that it was secured for somebody at
home.
"We had a long search among the porcelain shops for some blue china
plates of what is called 'the willow pattern.' We must have gone into
twenty shops at least before we found them; and, finally, when we did
get them, the dealer was as anxious to sell as we were to buy. He said
he had had those plates on hand a very long time, and nobody wanted
them. We did not tell him how rare they are at home, and how anxious
people are to get hold of them.
"The variety of porcelain in the Canton shops is very great, and a
simple list of what there is would fill several pages. They showed us
some of what they call egg-shell porcelain. It was so thin that you
could almost see through it, and so delicate that it had to be carefully
handled. The varieties of cups and saucers we could not begin to tell;
they make them suited to every market in the world, and it is said that
the greatest part of what they make is of the shapes that are not used
in China. Of vases there was no end, and they were of all sizes, from a
tiny cone for a small bouquet up to a huge one capable of holding a
barrel of water, with plenty of room to spare. The trade in vases must
be very great, if we are to judge by the quantities and variety that we
saw. Many of them were very elaborate, and must have cost a great deal
of money.
"But there is danger that you will get tired if we keep on much longer
about the sights of Canton, and particularly the shopping part of it.
Besides, we want to go out and see what there is in Hong-kong, and
perhaps we may run across something new in the Chinese part of the city
that we shall want to buy. A good many people say that you can buy
Canton goods just as cheaply in Hong-kong as in the city they come from.
That may be so; but then it is more satisfactory to get them there and
have the pleasure of buying them on the spot.
"We'll stop now and say good-bye. We have seen China and Japan, and had
a splendid time. We think we have learned a great deal about the two
countries, and hope that what we have written about them has been
interesting to those for whom it was intended. We have tried to see
things, and think of them without partiality or prejudice. We believe
that the people of the East have the same claims to respect that ours
have, and that it is only a narrow mind that sneers at the ways of
others because they are not like its own. We know that there are many
things in which we are superior to the Orientals, but we also know that
we have our weak points, and might be profitably instructed by those
whom some of us affect to despise. And the more we know these patient
and industrious people, the more we shall be likely to respect them. We
are soon to leave China, perhaps never to see it again; but both China
and Japan will always be pleasant recollections to both
"FRANK AND FRED."
[Illustration: "GOOD-BYE!"]
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