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The China Mission: Embracing a History of the Various Missions of All
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CHAPTER I.
WHERE do the Chinese live ? They live on the other
side of the globe. Their empire, including the eighteen
provinces, extends from 20~{!c~} to 40~{!c~} north latitude, and
from 100~{!c~} to 122~{!c~} east longitude, furnishing all the varieties
of climate to be found in the same latitude in this
country, and their dominions embrace four hundred millions
of souls, or more than one third of the human
race. Their country presents some of the longest rivers,
highest mountains, and most fertile plains in the world ;
and furnishes some of the rarest birds, richest fabrics,
and queerest people, to be found on the globe.
If you ask what they eat ~{!*~} we answer, they do not
eat beef nor bread, mutton nor milk, butter nor cheese ;
but they do eat fowls and fishes, pigs and puppies, rats
and rice, maize and millet, wheat and barley, pumpkins
and potatoes, turnips and tomatoes, ground-nuts and garlics,
pears and peaches, plantains and pumeloes, grapes
and guavas, pineapples and pomegranates, olives and
oranges, sharks' fins and birds' nests. But why so much
curiosity to learn what they eat, while so little concern
for the fact that they are hastening by millions to a
books.google.co.nz/books?id=TGUMAAAAIAAJ&output=html_text
CHAPTER I.
WHERE do the Chinese live ? They live on the other
side of the globe. Their empire, including the eighteen
provinces, extends from 20~{!c~} to 40~{!c~} north latitude, and
from 100~{!c~} to 122~{!c~} east longitude, furnishing all the varieties
of climate to be found in the same latitude in this
country, and their dominions embrace four hundred millions
of souls, or more than one third of the human
race. Their country presents some of the longest rivers,
highest mountains, and most fertile plains in the world ;
and furnishes some of the rarest birds, richest fabrics,
and queerest people, to be found on the globe.
If you ask what they eat ~{!*~} we answer, they do not
eat beef nor bread, mutton nor milk, butter nor cheese ;
but they do eat fowls and fishes, pigs and puppies, rats
and rice, maize and millet, wheat and barley, pumpkins
and potatoes, turnips and tomatoes, ground-nuts and garlics,
pears and peaches, plantains and pumeloes, grapes
and guavas, pineapples and pomegranates, olives and
oranges, sharks' fins and birds' nests. But why so much
curiosity to learn what they eat, while so little concern
for the fact that they are hastening by millions to a