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These people are, like most Orientals, a nation of ducks, - their greatest luxury consisting in vapour, warm, or surf bathing,- and much of their time is devoted to ...
page 242
... their enjoyment.
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Surf-bathing seems to be peculiar to the lower classes that reside near the sea; and it is probably the attendant exposure which bronzes the skins of those who indulge in it, until the stranger wonders why the natives along the coast are so much darker than those of the interior.
I have seen as many as several hundred men, women, and children,- the entire population of villages, apparently,- rolling about in the surf in one promiscuous heap, and all the while yelling and screaming like so many savages.
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My last cruise; or, where we went and what we saw: being an account of visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the mouth of the Amoor River. J. B. Lippincott & co., Philadelphia, 1857, pages 241-242 and 270. (An account of the travels of the United States North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition 1853-1856.). |
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