The East of to-Day and to-Morrow (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The East of to-Day and to-MorrowOn the morning when I first saw Canton, looking from my cabin window I found our steamer surrounded by an apparently end less ¿otilla of Chinese house-boats, and stood fascinated by the almost myriad life with which they teemed. No one who has not seen it has ever seen anything like it. The boats are twenty or thirty feet long, and are Shop, kitchen, freight-house, bed room, nursery, store-room, all in one, with sometimes a family of fifteen or twenty persons to crowd and strive, eat and Sleep, fight for the opportunity to earn their scanty wage, by day or night, and often to be born and die in them. The children swarm like ants, and almost before they can speak are tied to an oar and made to pull it. But when they are not tied thus they are sometimes hustled over the side of the boat. They Sink out of sight, and that is the end of them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.