Sunny Lands And Seas : a Voyage in the Ss. Ceylon : Notes Made During a Five Months' Tour in India, the Straits Settlements, Manila, China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, And California
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If he tries it, off goes his head. Out of 10,600 who competed on the last occasion, only 82 passed ! Most of the Ceylon pilgrims who went to Canton were attacked by the curio malady in its most virulent form ; and to see the spoils of the day exhibited in the evening was most laughable — one giving in one shop three dollars for what in another was bought for one. We spent the other two days we had in looking through the shops, in sketching, and seeing the great water-clock of Canton ; nothing m...ore ingenious in this than water dropping through a succession of tubs into one at the bottom, the depth of water in the latter showing the time. These Chinamen are a great fraud, and they stand unrivalled in the world in every branch of the art of cheating, and their abhorrent disregard of truth would stagger even Ananias himself The only thing that the 'Western devils,' as they call Europeans, can make better than themselves are clocks, or rather 1 52 SUNNY LANDS AND SEAS. watches, for I fancy they are satisfied with their one water-clock.
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