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" She adds, that the value of a bride is reckonedby the smallness of her feet. It was characteristic of Madame Pfeiffer that she found means to see muchwhich no European woman had ever seen before. She obtained access evento a Buddhist temple, --that of Houan, reputed to be one of the finest inChina. The sacred enclosure is surrounded by a high wall. The visitorenters first a large outer court, at the extremity of which a hugegateway opens upon an inner court. Beneath the arch stand two statues... ofwar-gods, each eighteen feet high, with terribly distorted faces and themost menacing attitudes; these are supposed to prevent the approach ofevil genii. A second portal, of similar construction, under which areplaced the "four heavenly kings, " leads to a third court, surrounding theprincipal temple, a structure one hundred feet in length, and of equalbreadth. On rows of wooden pillars is supported a flat roof, from whichglass lamps, lustres, artificial flowers, and brightly-coloured ribbonshang suspended.
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