I asked the guide if they ever quarreled.

His answer was significant.

"No! and it would be difficult to bring eight men of any other nationality together in such close proximity without differences arising and contentions taking place; but the Chinamen never trouble each other." There was only one man cooking at such a late hour as that in which we visited the kitchen, about half-past ten o'clock at night.

He used charcoal, and as the coals were fanned the fire looked like that of a forge in a blacksmith's shop.
On our way to the Chinese Restaurant we stepped into a goldsmith's shop.

There were a few customers present, and the proprietor waited on them with great diligence.