fied warriors. The
expressions on the features of this large number of statues were
remarkable in the fact that they all differed essentially from each
other; otherwise they were exceedingly commonplace.

Every sort of manufacture or business is performed in the most primitive
manner by hand, machinery of any sort being scarcely known; but personal
service or labor is so cheap that it even competes with machinery. One
is surprised as to how such a crowded community can exist in such an
inconsiderable space; whole families live and sleep in a single small
room. The Chinese, in point of domestic comfort and cleanliness, are a
century behind the Japanese; and this remark will apply as well to
nearly all the relations of life. There is less of nudity here than in
the latter country; but, so far as one can judge by brief observation
and inquiry, morality is at a lower gauge in China than in Japan. It is
doubtless as true here as elsewhere, that "one touch of nature makes the
whole world kin," but you lack the touch of nature. With the Japanese
the traveler feels himself sympathizing. He goes among them freely, he
enters their houses and drinks tea with them, but not so with the
Chinese; here we realize no sense of affiliation, but rather one of
repulsion. The universal amusement is that of gambling, and the means
whereby the people gratify this passion are endless. Dominos, and
several similar games, are most popular in connection with cards, the
latter game, however, differing very materially from our own. The
Chinese cards number a hundred to the pack. Cock fighting is universal,
and is as much of a national game as at Manilla.

Our guide, who was an intelligent and high-caste native, took us into
one of the opium dens, to be found in nearly every street of Canton, and
where we saw the victims of the terrible indulgence in the several
stages of debasement. A number of the smokers appeared to be men of
average health and strength, but all had the dull, vacant eye and
attenuated forms of the victims of this insidious habit. It was curious
to hear the guide stoutly defend the use of the opium pipe. He declared
that it lengthened, not shortened, life; besides which he insisted that
with opium one lived a double life, and therefore he lived twice as long
as he would do without it. "Europeans get drunk," said he, "and have
nasty headache; Chinaman smokes opium, enjoys paradise on earth, but has
no headache." Of course one canno