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  • Yet, if it were better carried out, it is not a bad idea to avoid paying any Anamese form of rent, to secure perfect drainage,

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The interest of my visits to the prison and execution ground of Canton, and of my glimpses of Anamese villages, may, I hope, be in some degree communicated to my readers, even though Canton and

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • I rested for some time at a very beautiful convent, and was most kindly entertained by some very calm, sweet-looking sisters, who labor piously among the female Anamese, and have schools for girls.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • After laboriously reaching Cholen, I found far the greater part of the town to be Chinese, rather than Anamese, with Chinese streets, temples, gaming houses, club houses, and that general air of business and industry which seems characteristic of the Chinese everywhere; but still groping my way about, I came upon what I most wished to see — the real Anamese town.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Then a train of Anamese carts passed, empty, the solid wooden wheels creaking frightfully round the ungreased axles, each cart being drawn by two buffaloes, each pair being attached to the cart in front by a rope through the nostrils, so that one driver sufficed for eleven carts.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • They think the Anamese very superior to the Cambodians, from whom indeed they conquered these six provinces, but the Cambodians are a bigger and finer race physically.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The native population is Anamese, a race something like the Chinese in feature, but differing from them slightly in dress.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

  • This is an Anamese version, printed in the "Chrestomathie cochin-chinoise"

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Then a train of Anamese carts passed, empty, the solid wooden wheels creaking frightfully round the ungreased axles, each cart being drawn by two buffaloes, each pair being attached to the cart in front by a rope through the nostrils, so that one driver sufficed for eleven carts.

    The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

  • Yet, if it were better carried out, it is not a bad idea to avoid paying any Anamese form of rent, to secure perfect drainage, a never-failing water supply, good fishing, immunity from reptiles, and the easiest of all highways at the very door.

    The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

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