From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... population at- tached to the legation is now large . The legation was , so to speak , the seat of a village , even when I was in Peking , and yet there were expected to arrive after I had left Peking no less than nineteen young ...
... population at- tached to the legation is now large . The legation was , so to speak , the seat of a village , even when I was in Peking , and yet there were expected to arrive after I had left Peking no less than nineteen young ...
Pàgina 43
... population is Chinese . I have employed Chinese alike in my office and in my house ; I have had dealings with their foremost men ; I have talked with them , dined with them , bargained with them , mixed with them , occasionally , in ...
... population is Chinese . I have employed Chinese alike in my office and in my house ; I have had dealings with their foremost men ; I have talked with them , dined with them , bargained with them , mixed with them , occasionally , in ...
Pàgina 44
... population of China is a somewhat unknown quantity , variously estimated at from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 . On the principle that these things are usually exaggerated , just as the population of Peking has been , I will take the lower ...
... population of China is a somewhat unknown quantity , variously estimated at from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 . On the principle that these things are usually exaggerated , just as the population of Peking has been , I will take the lower ...
Pàgina 45
Arnot Reid. country and population , the most valuable part commercially may , speaking broadly , be described as the watershed of the Yang - tsze - Kiang . Of the Chinese people , the portion that is commercially shrewdest may be found ...
Arnot Reid. country and population , the most valuable part commercially may , speaking broadly , be described as the watershed of the Yang - tsze - Kiang . Of the Chinese people , the portion that is commercially shrewdest may be found ...
Pàgina 48
... population of American mission- aries and Russian tea - merchants . Go a hundred miles from Kalgan , otherwise than by the main track of commerce , and labour would be purchas- able at a price too small to make it useful to measure it ...
... population of American mission- aries and Russian tea - merchants . Go a hundred miles from Kalgan , otherwise than by the main track of commerce , and labour would be purchas- able at a price too small to make it useful to measure it ...
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