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The Travels of Marco Polo

‘The people of Hang-chow dress gaily, and are remarkable among the Chinese for their dandyism. …’ (Fortune, II. 20.)

Note 1.—Pine [Pinus sinensis] is [still] the staple timber for ship‐building both at Canton and in Fo‐kien. There is a very large export of it from Fu‐chau, and even the chief fuel at that city is from a kind of fir. Several varieties of pine‐wood are also brought down the rivers for sale at Canton. (N. and Q., China and Japan, I. 170; Fortune, I. 286; Doolittle.)

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