. Niphon e PE-che-li; o, due anni in Giappone e Cina settentrionale. Ghiaccio, e non è probabile che tobe introdotto. I mercanti di cavalli giapponesi sono abbastanza affilati nella loro pratica come i loro confratelli tutti i worldoser e devo ammettere di essere stato, morethan un'occasione, preso in loro. Theyjudice per la stessa regola che facciamo, i segni dei denti, di un'età dei cavalli. Uno dei miei commercianti, - merita di essere chiamato - Onooma-Siodzi, ha fatto ricorso al dispositivo ingegnoso di lacceringmarks sui denti dei suoi animali, e notingcould superare la sua ilarità e il buon umore quando ho rilevato, e tassato con, la frode. Il

• Collaboratore: Reading Room 2020 / Alamy Foto Stock
• ID dell’immagine: 2CER2GX
• Dimensioni dei file: 7,2 MB (315,5 KB Download compresso)
• Liberatorie: Modello - no | Proprietà - no
• Dimensioni: 2714 x 921 px | 23 x 7,8 cm | 9 x 3,1 inches | 300dpi

Altre informazioni

Questa foto è un'immagine di pubblico dominio, il che significa che il copyright è scaduto o che il titolare del copyright ha rinunciato a tale diritto. Alamy addebita un costo per l'accesso alla copia ad alta risoluzione dell'immagine.

Questa immagine potrebbe avere delle imperfezioni perché è storica o di reportage.

. Niphon and Pe-che-li; or, Two years in Japan and northern China. ice, and is not likely tobe introduced. Japanese horse-dealers are quite as sharp in their practice as their confreres all the worldover, and I must admit to having been, on morethan one occasion, taken in by them. Theyjudge by the same rule as we do, the marks ofthe teeth, of a horses age. One of my dealers, —he deserves to be named—Onooma-Siodzi, resorted to the ingenious device of lacqueringmarks on the teeth of his animals, and nothingcould exceed his hilarity and good-humour whenI detected, and taxed him with, the fraud. The Japanese is merciful to his beast. Inever saw one of them ill-using his horses, norhave they ever the appearance of being starved 62 Saddles. or over-worked. Sore backs—that fruitful sourceof suffering in Europe—are almost unknownhere. This I attribute to the form of saddlein use, * which, though very ugly and rathercumbersome to handle, perfectly protects theback and shoulders. All my horses Avere pro-vided with these pack-saddles, but on their arrival. PACK-HORSES. in China, a wise committee of British officerspronounced them perfectly unsuited for theback of any known quadruped, and these sad-dles, with which Japanese horses carry theirheavy loads from one end of the island toanother, were condemned and allowed to rot asunserviceable, because two or three subaltern * I refer to pack saddles; the riding saddle may, possibly, be comfortable for the horse, but is a terrible thing to be-stride ; the led charger of a Daimio, which, on State occa-sions, invariably forms a part of his procession, does not lookhappy: nothing is to be seen of him, so covered is he withtrappings, but his legs, and these are generally pufifed ; evenhis tail is tied up in a blue bag. Admhmtration of Justice. 62, officers were too ignorant or too prejudiced togive tliem a trial.* Extract from Diari/, Jan. 24.—Captain Vyseheld his first Consular Court to-day. Thecomplainant, a British merchant o

Parole chiave associate all'immagine

• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1860