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take unto themselves in these foreign parts. The petty traders are also largely Chinese, and the contents of their booths showed that they cater for Chinese tastes.
I saw, in fact, the Chinese counterpart of the Bazar of an Indian cantonment, only with that easy disregard for order and appearances which the difference of European and Chinese notions justifies. Mutatis mutandis, the soldiers'
marketing place outside a Roman Castrum planted somewhere in the East might have offered a spectacle not unlike this.
This suggestion of a Castrum was curiously maintained by the broad street we entered on passing the gate. It contains the main Bazar of the cantonment besides various public buildings, and bisects the whole " New City " from north to south. The
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