The people I saw in Canton, Hong-Kong, and Macao, are of middling stature.
Their complexion varies with their occupation: the peasants and labourers are rather sun-burnt; rich people and ladies white.

Their faces are flat, broad, and ugly; their eyes are narrow, rather obliquely placed, and far apart; their noses broad, and their mouth large.

Their fingers I observed were in many cases extremely long and thin; only the rich (of both sexes) allow their nails to grow to an extraordinary length, as a proof that they are not obliged, like their poorer brethren, to gain their livelihood by manual labour.
These aristocratic nails are generally half an inch long, though I saw one man whose nails were quite an inch in length, but only on his left hand.

With this hand it was impossible for him to raise any flat object, except by laying his hand flat upon it, and catching hold of it between his fingers.
The women of the higher classes are generally inclined to corpulency, a quality which is highly esteemed not in women alone, but in men as well.
Although I had heard a great deal about the small feet of Chinese women, I was greatly astonished at their appearance.

Through the kind assistance of a missionary's lady (Mrs.Balt) I was enabled to behold one of these small feet in natura.