National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

> > > >
Color New!IIIF Color HighRes Gray HighRes PDF   Japanese English
0430 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 / Page 430 (Color Image)

New!Citation Information

doi: 10.20676/00000213
Citation Format: Chicago | APA | Harvard | IEEE

OCR Text

 

284 THE GATE OF THE ' GREAT WALL' CH.LXXV

prosperity to the peasants and then invariably ruined them. For none of those who grow opium in these parts can long resist the temptation of personal use. Laziness, gambling, and other evil habits soon get firm hold of the cultivator, and in the end the mortgaged property passes out of his hands into the clutches of the town usurer.

yÿa%+