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and some of them smaller, crooked and irregular and encumbered with every kind of dirt, and ashes, and refuse and litter, in which are housed pellmell, money changers, butcher shops, chinese restaurants, shoe [[strikethrough]] stores [[/strikethrough]] ^[[maker,]] jewellers, smiths, taylors, companies and what not. Next [[underline]] to an ill smelling [[/underline]] little shop is a [[underline]] prosperous, opulently furnished jewelry store, [[/underline]] with [[strikethrough]] gold and silver carved [[/strikethrough]] guilded carved ornaments. and rich furniture. and a placid Chinese merchant throwing behind richly ornamented trimmings
The [[underline]] Shameen, [[/underline]] or European American is near by and is [[underline]] separated [[/underline]] from the Chinese town, on one side [[underline]] by the river [[/underline]] and a [[strikethrough]] loop [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] canal like [[/underline]] loop, making thus an Island accessible from 2 arched
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bridges. [[underline]] Access restricted to ^[[Foreigners]] [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] while [[/strikethrough]] except the Chinese permitted thus separating the Shameen from Canton proper. Policemen of Shameen, in guard at the bridge gates. [[underline]] Shameen itself a succession of very substantial well built European looking buildings, [[/underline]] housing the Consulate, Banks and warehouses of Europeans and Americans. British legation most prominent. Quiet pleasant large well kept streets, all straight and well shaded. A true [[underline]] Oasis in the turmoil and dirt of Canton. [[/underline]] All around the Shameen in the adjacent waters of River or Canal, [[underline]] thousands of Sampan, [[/underline]] houseboats, with their families thickly parked next to the opposite shore. Are not allowed to tie up on Shameen shore. This