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coo.31924071157618	Ritchie, Leitch	The British world in the East : a guide ... to India, China, Australia, South Africa, and the other possessions or connexions of Great Britain in the eastern and southern seas by Leitch Ritchie ... v.2	1847		.txt	text/plain	140351	6157	66	paltry number of troops he was able to raise in so imminent a peril, shows that real power and theoretical despotism are very different things in such eastern governments. The beans of the water-lily are also eaten in great quantities ; but rice is the general food of the people. In this country the Buddhist faith appears to be somewhat different both from its Burmese and Thibetan modifications; the king having a sacerdotal character, although birds' nests and other articles for the Chinese gourmands; and their imports chiefly British piece goods and goods so stringently that they have contrived to annihilate a trade which existed with Cochin China and Western Asia, to reduce the annual number of Chinese junks among the feudal princes for the general throne, terminated in favour of the chief of a petty town, subsequently king of Han, and now the founder of an imperial dynasty, by the name of which the Chinese still	./cache/coo.31924071157618.pdf	./txt/coo.31924071157618.txt