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Drawn by Auguste Borget. Lithograph by Eugene Ciceri.
Proof before letters.
Text from The Chater Collection page 352: Plate VI from A. Borget's "Sketches of China and the Chinese"
View of boats on shore used as habitations. Rocky bluff and trees r. Bay with junks and distant hills.
The artist writes, " One morning I crossed the bay and landed in a little creek, where there is a village of boats drawn ashore, a kind of habitation of which we have no idea in Europe, even in the poorest countries. Some of these boat-houses are sheltered under large trees, others leaning against the rocks, but the greater part rest on the ground, supported by stays. The richer sort are placed on pieces of wood driven into the earth, and are generally augmented by another apartment, if we may so style a little enclosure surrounded by planks, and covered with straw or cane roof, supported by four bamboos, and so arranged as to leave sufficient interval between it and planks to afford free admittance to the air and the light. These holes serve to accommodate five or six inhabitants, who are crowded together in a space in which a couple of Europeans could not exist."
Sepia lithograph. From a drawing on the spot by A. Borget.
P7138. Chater VIII.8
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