

DlTRATION OF StAT FROM OTII TO 18TH JulT, 1858 



rapid increase of the colony of "Victoria or Hong-kong. — Disagreeables. — 

 Public character. — The Comprador, or " fac-totum." — A Chinese fortune-teller. — 

 Curiosity-stalls. — The To-stone. — Pictures on so-called rice-paper. — Canton Eng- 

 lish. — Notices on the Chinese language and mode of writing. — Manufacture of 

 ink. — Hospitality of German missionaries. — The custom of exposing and mur- 

 dering female children. — Method of dwarfing the female foot. — Sir John Bowiing. 

 — Branch Institute of the Royal Asiatic Society. — An ecclesiastical dignitary on 

 the study of natural sciences. — The Chinese in the East Indies. — Green indigo or 

 Lix-Kao. — Kind reception by German countrymen. — Anthropometrical measure- 

 ments. — Ramble to Little Hong-kong. — Excursion to Canton on board H. M. gun- 

 boat Algerine. — A day at the English head-quarters. — The Treaty of Tien-Tsin. — 

 Visit to the Portuguese settlement of Macao. — Herr von Carlowitz.— Camoens' 

 Grotto. — Church for Protestants. — Pagoda Makok. — Dr, Kane. — Present position 

 of the colony. — Slave-trade revived under the name of Chinese emigration. — Ex- 

 cursions round Macao. — The Isthmus. — Chinese graves. — Praya Granite. — A 

 Chinese physician. — Singing stones. — Departure. — GutzlafTs Island. — Voyage to 

 the Yang-tse-Kiang. — Wusung. — Anival at Shanghai. 



Victoria, the name by which the settlement situate on the 

 nortli side of the ishmd of Hong-kong is kno^vn in official 



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