Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats: Or, An Overland Journey from China Towards IndiaJ. Murray, 1871 - 475 sidor |
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Sida 429 - ... which resembles a privet-shrub, and arrive in Szchuan in March, where they are purchased at about twenty taels per basket. The trees by the middle of March have thrown out a number of long tender shoots and leaves, and then the clusters of eggs enclosed in balls of the young leaves are suspended to the shoots by strings. About the end of the month the...
Sida 429 - ... of silk. All the branches of the trees are thus completely coated with wax an inch thick, and in the beginning of August are lopped off' close to the trunk and cut into small lengths which are tied up in bundles and taken to the boiling houses, where they are transferred without further preparation to large cauldrons of water, and boiled until every particle of the waxy substance rises to the surface ; the wax is skimmed off and run into moulds in which shape it is exported to all parts of the...
Sida 171 - The tree from which this peculiar kind of tea is manufactured grows chiefly along the hanks of the Ya-ho, and, unlike that which produces the tea exported to Europe, is a tall tree, often fifteen feet high, with a large and coarse leaf.
Sida 429 - ... as a man's thigh and all uniformly cut down to a height of about eight feet, without a single branch. The cultivation of wax is a source of great wealth to the province of Szchuan, and ranks in importance second only to that of silk. Its production is not attended with much labor or risk to the cultivator. The eggs of the insect which produces the wax are annually imported from the districts of Hochin or Hoking and Why-li-tzou in Yunnan (where the culture of the eggs forms a special occupation)...
Sida 313 - ... Each tribe pays a tithe to its chief, who in turn pays two-thirds of his share as tribute to the Chinese Government. In appearance and costume they closely resemble the Chinese, shaving their heads and wearing tails. The men invariably wear the blue cotton jacket and short trousers, common in China. The costume "of the women is fantastic but graceful : it consists of a head-dress of red cloth, closely braided with cowrie-shells, for which the Moso women occasionally substitute a very becoming...
Sida 430 - ... skimmed off and run into moulds in which shape it is exported to all parts of the Empire. It would seem that the wax growers find that it does not pay them to reserve- any of the insects for their reproductive state, and hence the necessity of importing the eggs from Yunnan. In the district of...
Sida 311 - Such were the meanings which the Persians assigned to the gifts." YOL. xvn. — [NEW SERIES.] 29 For example, a piece of chicken liver, three pieces of chicken fat, and a chili, wrapped in red paper, means,
Sida 313 - ... women is fantastic, but graceful. It consists of a very becoming little cap of red and black cloth, with pendant tassel, jauntily worn on the top of the head, inclining a little to one side; a short loose jacket, with long wide sleeves, over a tight-fitting cotton bodice, covering the breasts; with a kilt-like petticoat of home-made cotton stuff, reaching from the waist to the knee, and gathered in longitudinal plaits. Instead of stockings, their...
Sida 304 - I had with me a quantity of Holloway's Ointment. I " gave some to the people, and nothing could exceed their " gratitude : and, in consequence— milk, fowls, butter, and " horse-feed poured in upon us, until at last a teaspoonful " of Ointment was worth a fowl and any quantity of peas, " and the demand became so great that I was obliged to. "lock up the small remaining stock.
Sida 429 - ... where they are purchased at about twenty taels per basket. The trees by the middle of March have thrown out a number of long tender shoots and leaves, and then the clusters of eggs enclosed in balls of the young leaves are suspended to the shoots by strings. About the end of the month the larvae make their appearance, feed on the branches and leaves, and soon attain the size of a small caterpillar or rather a wingless house fly apparently covered with white down, with a delicate plume-like appendage,...