Looking up toward the roof, our extreme east of the ghetto. Ewo, name by which the firm is still known in Shanghai, was the family name of Howaua, the Chinese merchant from whom they rented the factory. It "was a. three-storied building, the basement being faced with gunite. The lower verandahs {2 China, they are generally very beautiful," and are managed with as much dexterity as those of the London waterman. On the days of racing, the whole arrangements are con ducted after the English fashion, the men being dressed in fancy clothes, while party-coloured streamers. dis-gaily took his seat in the ladies' stand at the next meeting. Small' wonder, that at times the foreign barbarians found it dificult to take the "flowery" mandarins seriously.
So lived the foreign community in Canton and Macao before 1639.
(To be continued next week)
¢y@s gradually growing accustomed to the gloom' and sudden transition from brilliant sunshine to the darkness within the building, we see a most beautifully executed model of 3 Soochow Cresk barge, about twenty feet in length. It is a perfect model, complete in every detail, from the Boatman's utensils and furniture to
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