A Yankee on the Yangtze - being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma (1904) (14804909203)

Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches)
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925
Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China)
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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REPULSIVE WOMEN 281 straight jacket of excessive propriety. They chewbetel. The uncivilized and even savage custom ofchewing this nut is not as vulgar and nasty as the freeuse of tobacco by highly-civilized moderns. TheseShan heroes are nice, spry, intelligent-looking fellows.Their women wear monster turbans made of blackcloth, and bright colours about their ankles, with teethash black, as is their headgear. We have seen manygroups of these females. Soon after noon we arrived at Kiucheng, the Chinesename meaning Old City. The Shan name is Kang Ai.This proved to be a hot spot, and we were dust-coveredand hungry. Celebrated visitors usually stop in anold Yamen. Needless to say we stopped there ! Athousand families have homes there. The main streetcontains a double row of booths and most of the busi-ness seems to be done under them. Many Kachins—wild men of the mountains—who had carried woodfrom the highlands, were selling it and making littlepurchases. I passed a small but pretty mo