slipper-boats

Updated: June 16, 2025

An hour after disgorging three boat loads of Chinamen at Whampoa, we arrived at the beginning of Canton, but it took more than half an hour of cautious threading of our way among junks, sampans, house-boats, and slipper-boats, before we moored to the crowded and shabby wharf.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither