Peeps Into China; Or, The Missionary's Children

at the Celestials would be like, for Sybil and Leonard had now landed on Chi

had to be passed, struck the children as a very strange and beautiful building, quite different from anything that they had seen before; and there was a great noise of chattering going on outside, which sounded most unintelligible.

joins the great river, and about one hundred ships were anchored before this busy, commercial city. Many families resident there have their junks and a little home on the river. There were some

look very pretty floating on the water, and both Sybil and Leonard were very pleased to be taken over a large floating hotel before they left Shanghai. Leonard was very anxious to know how long this town had been open to foreign commerce, and was told since the Opium War, which lasted from 1840 to 1842, when the British, ha

, to interest and show them sights, they enjoyed themselves very much. Sybil and Leonard could not help noticing how very many people they met in spectacles, b

, everybody that we have seen, as yet, spoiling their tea by not taking any milk or sugar in it; and fa

e like plenty of both milk and sugar; but I dare say the

watching of ships carrying rice and other products away, and then

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m Shanghai, to see what that port looked like in the distance, and how Sybil examined her map as t

nce of Fu-kien. It was at Amoy, in the same province, where their father had a missionary friend, who had invited them to pay him a few da

"that we should actually be on the Yellow Sea ou

ody than they seem to like to stare at us here,

by a group of natives of that place, but Leonard had

why so many of them wear turbans? I did

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ers, which, he said, he thought they looked. One thing remarkable about the people of Amoy was that the different families seemed to consist almost entirely of boys. A great many of the inhabitants were very poor, living crowded together in dirty houses very barely furnished. M

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anite were to be met with, which were regarded by them with reverence, and looked upon as g

nd monasteries were, for the most part, erected

ld not afford to keep her any longer. She had four sisters and only two brothers; the youngest of all, the baby, was to be drowned by her father, later on in the day, in a tub of water. They had never done anything like this before: this man and woman had never killed a child, although they had had five girls, and many of their

d sometimes sell, or give them away, to their friends, when they are

ld fetch ten dollars; and this little girl, put up for sale, was now eleven years old; therefore she was being offere

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ommon in some parts of China, where the parent is poor; and even amongst the well-to-do classes little girls are sometimes put to death, if the parents have more daughter

r boys too?" Sybil asked, wh

rn; and not only can they help to support their parents when old, but

girl would

uld be considere

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dress, had sat down quietly to talk matters over with her sister-in-law, who thought that she had acted very wisely. Killing a daughter, in China

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s child right off to any Chinaman than trust her to a foreign "barbarian." But the sum tempted him; and although he could not understand how receiving it did not give Chu altogether to her purchaser, he seemed to be contented, especially when the teacher explained that she would not be a slave, but would be paid for what work she did. Little Chu was well off to

d also put these on her. Chu was only eleven years old, but poverty and care had given the little one an old expression beyond her years. Chinese children of from ten to si

that they would spend at Amoy; and though Chu had come to live with foreigners, in the family of a "barbarian," as her father thought, we can well imagin

ed the baby himself!" said Sybi

the fathers who commit the deed; other pe