Travel Diaries and Journals

Travel Diaries and Journals

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Diary by a young American woman living in the Philippines, 1905

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p. 11

Thursday March 23. Canton.

Awoke in Canton to hear jabbering of many Chinamen in Sampans surrounding boat. "Ah Kow," Guide, met us and we started off in Sedan chairs born by three coolies. We would have been lost in two minutes without a guide. The streets, too narrow to be called streets, all look alike and wind and twist and turn and go up and down steps until one is fairly dizzy. They are often so narrow that people meeting a chair are obliged to stand with back to the wall to allow room for passing, and more than one Chinaman had his big mushroom shaped rain hat knocked off by a passing chair.

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