Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats: Or, An Overland Journey from China Towards IndiaJ. Murray, 1871 - 475 หน้า |
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Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats Thomas Thornville Cooper มุมมองอย่างย่อ - 2014 |
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amongst appearance arrival asked Assam Atenze baggage bank Bathang Bhamo Bishop boat boatmen brick tea Burmah butter tea Candareen carried chair chen Chen-tu chief China Chinaman Chinese Chung Ching commenced coolies crowd custom dinner dressed entered Father feet followed foreigner fowl gorge Hankow head hills hour hundred Ichang journey junks Lamas Lamasery Lassa leave Lei-su Lhássa Lithang look Lowder Lowlee Mahomedan Mandarin matchlocks merchants miles mission missionaries Mooquor morning mountains mules night once party passed passport Pekin Philip picul ponies present priests province rapid reached rice river road round route Samshu seemed sent Sha-s Shanghai smoking snow soldiers soon Sz-chuan Ta-jen Ta-lowya Ta-tsian-loo taels Tali-foo Taly Tang Thibet Thibetan Tien told took town trade tribes Tsali Tze-fan Viceroy village Weisee Ya-mun Ya-ts yaks Yang-ts yards Yunnan
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หน้า 429 - Szchuan in March, where they are purchased at about twenty taels per basket. The trees by the middle of March have thrown out a number of long tender shoots and leaves, and then the clusters of eggs enclosed in balls of the young leaves are suspended to the shoots by strings. About the end of the month the larvae make their appearance, feed on the branches and leaves, and soon attain the size of a small caterpillar or rather a wingless house fly apparently covered with white down, with a delicate...
หน้า 171 - The tree from which this peculiar kind of tea is manufactured grows chiefly along the banks of the Ya-ho, and, unlike that which produces the tea exported to Europe, is a tall tree, often fifteen feet high, with a large and coarse leaf.
หน้า 429 - ... with a delicate plume-like appendage, curving from the tail over the back. So numerous are they that, as seen by me in Yunnan, the branches of the trees are whitened by them, and appear as if covered with feathery snow. The grub proceeds in July to take the chrysalis form, burying itself in a white wax secretion, just as a silkworm wraps itself in its cocoon of silk. All the branches of the trees are thus completely coated with wax an inch thick, and in the beginning of August are lopped off...
หน้า 313 - ... Each tribe pays a tithe to its chief, who in turn pays two-thirds of his share as tribute to the Chinese Government. In appearance and costume they closely resemble the Chinese, shaving their heads and wearing tails. The men invariably wear the blue cotton jacket and short trousers, common in China. The costume "of the women is fantastic but graceful : it consists of a head-dress of red cloth, closely braided with cowrie-shells, for which the Moso women occasionally substitute a very becoming...
หน้า 431 - I was a traveller, seeing and noting everything with an impartial eye, that, in order to prove myself an impartial judge between reason and prejudice, I proceeded with stoical fortitude to taste doggie; one taste led to another, and resulted in a verdict for reason; for in summing up, after a hearty meal, I pronounced the dog ham to be delicious in flavour, well smoked, tender, and juicy.
หน้า 409 - ... prime necessary of life ; to their need of it may be ascribed the final success of the Chinese conquest of Eastern Thibet. Their whole business in life seems to be to procure a sufficiency of it ; and it is no cheap luxury, for the Lamas, keeping in their hands the retail, as the Chinese...
หน้า 313 - ... short loose jacket, with long wide sleeves, over a tight-fitting cotton bodice, covering the breasts ; with a kilt-like petticoat of home-made cotton stuff, reaching from the waist to the knee, and gathered in longitudinal plaits. Instead of stockings, their...
หน้า 311 - Such were the meanings which the Persians assigned to the gifts.1' TOL. XYII. — [NEW SERIES.] 29 For example, a piece of chicken liver, three pieces of chicken fat, and a chili, wrapped in red paper, means,
หน้า 304 - I had with me a quantity of Holloway's Ointment. I " gave some to the people, and nothing could exceed their " gratitude : and, in consequence— milk, fowls, butter, and " horse-feed poured in upon us, until at last a teaspoonful " of Ointment was worth a fowl and any quantity of peas, " and the demand became so great that I was obliged to. "lock up the small remaining stock.
หน้า 430 - ... where they are transferred without further preparation to large cauldrons of water, and boiled until every particle of the waxy substance rises to the surface ; the wax is skimmed off and run into moulds in which shape it is exported to all parts of the Empire.