This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...being wretchedly poor, there is much of vice and misery among them; this not only arises from themselves, but also from the abandoned characters on shore, who make the "Boat Town," or "Floating Town," a "City of Eefuge" from their pursuers--the officers of justice. Eighty thousand huts floating on the water, inhabited ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...being wretchedly poor, there is much of vice and misery among them; this not only arises from themselves, but also from the abandoned characters on shore, who make the "Boat Town," or "Floating Town," a "City of Eefuge" from their pursuers--the officers of justice. Eighty thousand huts floating on the water, inhabited in a great degree by poverty, crime, and squalid wretchedness are not an object to be looked upon without emotion. 152 BAD CHARACTERS OF HOG LANE. Hog Lane is not exactly the place where I should choose to build a country-house, though the foreign sailors are so fond of it. This dirty hole leads into the square before the factories, opposite the landing-place, and its small and crowded tenements and shops can by no means boast the best of inhabitants. Sam-shu is here plentifully supplied with other spirituous liquors, while clothing, coarse earthenware, and trumpery articles of all kinds abound. Pickpockets, cheats, and vagabonds swarm in every part, and the drunken sailors are pillaged without mercy. Excess, and riot, and debauch, are shamelessly indulged in, and Shadwell, Blackwall, and Wapping are left far behind in profligacy. Hog Lane is bad enough in the day-time, but at night dissipation takes the rule, and the place is avoided by the sober and the wise. The celestial shopkeepers can puff, as well as the people of other nations. What think you of the following translation of an ink-maker's shopbill "At the shop Tae-shing (prosperous in the extreme) very good ink; fine! fine! Ancient shop; great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and self make this ink; fine and hard; very hard; picked with care, selected with attention. I sell very good ink; prime cost is very. This ink is heavy, so is gold. The eye of ...
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