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Japanese merchants completely undersell the foreigners. All signs point to tremendously increased mercantile wealth on the part of the Chinese and Japanese. If I were a merchant in this part of the world, I would sell out and go home and stay there. Let the Western world look out!

I visited many Chinese homes in Canton and old Shanghai in my search for Chinese pottery, and the richness and beauty of their artistic possessions made a deep impression. I secured a number of fine specimens- many for almost nothing- but in frequent instances, good specimens could only be captured at highly prohibitive prices --- those I left --- a few gentlemen would not sell at any price. In the old furniture shops and in certain bazaars I bought Sung pottery of rare beauty, cheaper than I could