The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-02-28

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ders. They can carry finmensc weights.
The whites generally ride in chairs
carried by two or four 'eouIies.7 1t is
very seldom that you see women Tor
servants, they generally have the men,
and pay them from six TO eight dollars
per month. Persons berelive in great.
er style than they do a home
Business here is carried on different
ly from what it is IN The United States.
The natives do oil the labor; the busi
ness hours being from 10 A NJ. tod
NJ Every morning, Tea or Coffee is
brought to your room before you get
up. Breakfast at O'Clock. (four or
! five different courses) Tifin (Lunch)
at or 2 P NJ the Same as supper.
Dinner at Z or 8 p. NJ. with six or sew
en- different courses Water is not
much used Except % the table in
liqnors); wines and mar liquors being
used as subtitutes Every body seems
to take things easy and comfortable.
The other afternoon some five OF us
took chairs, Qour COOLIES to each
chair and went on top of the Peak.
which is 1900 feet above the sea. We
had fine time; had plenty of refresh
ments up there, and did not have to
walk as people do at home to get on
top of Mt Pleasant.
Several gentlemen here to whom l
had letters have been very kind and
attentive to me Since then | now
and then meet with an acquaintance
from the States have had a pre-
sem Of fine little monkey; but he is
so full of mischief, he has torn couple
of books for me and newspapers, sto-
len my shoe horn, whips my dog, and
is all the time talking and chatting,
making horrid noise.
Since last wrote you we hid gas
introduced in the colony. The natives
did not know what to make of it; they
felt the ground aud lamp posts to see
if they were hot--and thought the
light ran in the pipes under the ground.
They said, 'too muchee handsome
lightec gala Sposcc no got yee oily.
how can burnee?' and n lot of questions
like that. ! should like very much to
earn the Chinese language, especially
the Canton dialect. but the more try
to learn tho harder it gets; for the same
words pronounced different ways have
different meanings; and another thing,
they have no grammar, or grammati
cal connections in their sentences, as
this "Pa pa, pa pa, pa pa tie" Faith.
er rakes the ground with rake. i"
Ngow cook tit pa (Beefstakes) Trans
lated is Ngow "a cow yook, (meaD
tit, (.ron) pa, (sIice). The celestials
are making great preparations for the
Dragon feast one month (English)
and the next moon (Chinese)
Last moon We had severe Typhoon
A number of vessels were lost, and
every thing blown around at great
rate, such AS roofs and fences, and
breaking open doors &C. Unfortunate
ly we had raft of very expensive
timber, (valued at $3.50 per foot out
in the water. The ropes parted, and
away went the timber. A great many
lives were lost, |, myself picked
up more than dozen "Sampan" peo.
pie out of the water.
The Garrison sports camo off last
week The best was, to see silver dol
lars dropped into barrel of -four, and
see the soldiers dive in with their
heads, and bring out the dollars in
their teeth. Then there was wheel
barrow race: the fellows were blind
folded before they started, and they
ran in all directions except the right
one. Some were knocked Ove~; others
tumbled into a creek that was run
ming close by. and others were run
down by fellows that were behind
, them. y have seen a great deal o.
Chinese jugglery There are grea
many things | might write about
, which would probably interest you
but they are so common with me now
i, that it is not so much of a novelty
and | never think of them; such a.
forty or fifty men carrying large
stone with bamboos. The novelty O.
their dress to a stranger is qui'e sight
Their ideas and notions are something
worthy of notice, They do almost
, every thing just the opposite way tc
what ,ce would do it. AT some kinds
of work they are very ingenious, anc
, again at others, they seem to do it will
: nam strength and stupiduess
| arrested two Cinnamon for steal
, ing. One got six weeks in the chair
=, gang" and the other had to pay fin(
OF fifteen dollars. Piracy is very com
mon here, l saw seven Chinese hung
: the other day, aud seventeen CelesLials
: nogged for larceny. Two Europeans
and two American negroes fogget
y them. The negroes understood theil
BUSINESS.
= We havo very fine fruit here: frcst
: oranges, dates pIantalns &c. Th'
:, other. day Capt. H, brought me up 1
: nice basket of mangosteens from Siam
He long No. chow chow" my boy
. says: that, is, they are No. 1, good tt
4 eat
! There was q Chinese funeral jus
passed, Two persons carried the cof
:, lin lashed to bamboo. One played
. bugle or horn, and one a tomtom
There was one mourner with piec
: : of white cloth bound around her head
|. ! They were not walking but going at
/ dog trot
The weather is extremely warm her
August One of the clerks down a
the mint told me that tho other da.
= thar Thermnmeter stood at 140o.