The Boy Travellers in the Far East [Part First]: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and ChinaKnox, Thomas Wallace
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East [Part First]: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China
Knox, Thomas Wallace
China -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature; Japan -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
A Chinese Beggar 355
Signing the Treaty of Tien-tsin 356
Mode of Irrigating Fields 359
The Doctor's Bedroom 360
Part of the Wall of Pekin 361
A Pekin Cab 362
A Composite Team 363
A Chinese Dragon 364
A Pavilion in the Prohibited City 366
Temple of Heaven 367
Pekin Cash 367
Traditional Likeness of Confucius 368
God of War 368
God of Literature 368
God of Thieves 368
A Mandarin Judge Delivering Sentence 369
Squeezing the Fingers 371
Squeezing the Ankles 371
A Bed of Torture 372
Four Modes of Punishment 373
Standing in a Cage 374
Hot-water Snake 374
Carrying Forth to the Place of Execution 375
Just Before Decapitation 375
Military Candidates Competing with the Bow and Arrow 376
Walking on Stilts 378
Juggler Spinning a Plate 379
Gambling with a Revolving Pointer 379
Fortune-telling by Means of a Bird and Slips of Paper 380
Fortune-telling by Dissecting Chinese Characters 381
Chinese Razor 382
Barber Shaving the Head of a Customer 382
Bridge of the Cloudy Hills 383
The God of the Kitchen 384
A Lama 385
The Hills near Chan-kia-kow 386
Specimen of Chinese Writing 389
Four Illustrations of the Chinese Version of "Excelsior" 393
Barracoons at Macao 394
Coolies Embarking at Macao 395
Enraged Coolie 396
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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