Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...that the object of these walls were in remote days, to prevent hostile bands of ladrones from plundering and carrying off the belongings of the more peaceful settlers, who dwell in what may be termed stalls partitioned by mere bamboo lattice, which contrasts strangely with the subtantial shed, roofed with tile bricks; the eave extending to about five feet of the pavement. The different families live in this place with very little forniture. They sleep on bamboo benches which are about the size of a double bed-stead. The strips of bamboo which replace the bed springs are about an inch wide. A bolster and a piece of matting similar to Japanese matting constitute the bedding. In this place the people seem happy and contented. Peace reigns supreme except when the children squall about, midnight when the never fail are to strike the highest discordant note; which once caused a sentry to remark while passing on patrol that the place sounded like the left wing of a foundling asylum and that they must have found some new born babies to-night. The soldier was right so fas as the latter part of his joke went Dobie Itch and Scrofula. Poor little dots, many of them come into the world with scrofulous blood, which causes the sores and scars which the greater portion of them suffer from, apart from this there is an itch commonly called dobie. It is more of a pest than a skin eruption. It generally commences about the feet and armpits, and if not checked will gradually appear in blotchesw hich traverse the entire body. We were highly amused, on our landing, at the native women and children, who are more annoyed by the dobie i'ch than horses are by flies, when walking along the street with a basket on their head they are forced by irritation to place it...