The book Turbans Tails Or Sketches in the Unromantic East was written by author Alfred J Bamford Here you can read free online of Turbans Tails Or Sketches in the Unromantic East book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Turbans Tails Or Sketches in the Unromantic East a good or bad book?
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" The subjects of these works of art were mostly scenes of well-known dramas. My stopping to buy some of them was a matter of great interest. The crowd thickened around to see what th 188 Turbans and Tails. foreign devil wanted and to what extent the celestial picture dealer would be able to fleece him, for, however much the literary Chinaman affects the nil admirari, the average Chinamen of the streets behave like verit- able children, ready to be amused with the merest trifle, and making no a...ttempts to hide their curiosity, and the cheating of a foreigner by a Chinaman, though a diver- sion both frequent and old, never seems to lose its charm. The pictures I purchased were wortli study, but transcend my powers of description. If men whose physiology is normal are fearfully and wonderfully made, what shall we say of men to whom must be added tigers and horses concerning whose construction the most learned physiologist and the most skilled anatomist would have to admit that they stood on a level of ignorance with the little ragamuffins who mould mud- creatures in the gutters ?
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