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It is very difficult for us of this generation to picture the life of the British in Canton 100 years ago. There is any amount of literature concerning the politics and economies of the 100 years which preceded the termination of the monopoly of the East India Ca. in 1834, but this is mostly very heavy reading, and not very interesting, because time has covered all the issues discussed with many other records which have rendered them almost unimportant. The accumulating strata of political and commercial history in China, since those days, makes 1t difficult to dis-enter these affairs; they are now buried deeply and they cannot be explained clearly in a rt space. We will therefore leave them alone for the present and attempt to catch glimpses of the ordinary routine life of the Brit tish in Canton 100 years ago.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.