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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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...in through the gate of the Yoshiwara right into the full blaze of the garish lights streaming from the parti-coloured lanterns swinging at the doorways and from the cages. He dismounted, and strolled past the sake1 shops and tea-houses, and what he once called in the Chronicle gaily-bedizened bevies of frailty on exhibition, squatting, pipe in hand, in long rows behind their lacquer brazier--each house with its distinctive crest--with the whole entourage repeated in duplicate in the huge plate-glass mirrors that in most cases formed the panelling of the walls of the show-room. Through streets on streets of this description he fared, with their motley crowds of all nationalities and tongues and colours. English Jacks elbowed their way through throngs of pig-tailed Chinamen, here and there jabbering and chaffering and cheapening the wares the fox-visaged, bullet-headed gyu kept on crying and extolling and thrusting upon the favourable notice of this huge Japanese Vanity Fair; fairhaired Scandinavians and Teutons and Slavs jostled with swarthy niggers and Lascars and scedy-boy firemen from the mail-boats in the offing; while scraps of French and the languages of Southern Europe set you a-thinking of Alexandria and Port Said and Ismailia in spite of yourself. All this shot over a fabric of native texture, by way of embroidery as it were, was not unsuggestive of the basement of the Tower of Babel, with the Devil and the Flesh as skipper and first mate respectively, after the Lord had worked his own sweet will upon the philology of the original Volapuk, and reduced it all to chaos and confusion. Past all the smaller houses Whitmore fared, and made direct for a great and stately pile of buildings, with massive doors and latticed balconies, and a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230111605
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230111603
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr

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