XV. 



Duration of Stat fkom 25th July to 11th August, 1858. 



A stroll through the old Chinese quarter. — Book-stalls. — Public Baths. — Chinese 

 Pawnbrokers. — Foundling hospital. — The Hall of Universal Benevolence. — 

 Sacrificial Hall of Medical Faculty. — City prison. — Temple of the Goddess of the 

 Sea. — Chinese taverns. — Tea garden. — Temple of Buddha. — Temple of Confucius. 

 — Taouist convent. — Chinese nuns. — An apothecary's store, and what is sold 

 therein. — Public schools. — Christian places of worship. — Native industry.— Ceno- 

 taphs to the memory of beneficent females. — A Chinese patrician family. — The 

 villas of the foreign merchants. — Activity of the London Missionarj^ Society. — Dr. 

 Hobson. — Chinese medical works. — Leprosy. — The American Missionary So- 

 ciety. — Dr. Bridgman. — Main tze tribe. — Mission schools for Chinese boys and 

 girls. — The North-China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. — Meeting in honour 

 of the Members of the Novara Expedition. — Mons. de Montigny. — Baron Gros. 

 — Interview with the Tau-Tai, or chief Chinese official of the city. — The Jesuit 

 mission at Sikkawei. — The Pagoda of Long-Sah. — A Chinese dinner. — Serenade 

 by the German singing-club. — The Germans in China. — Influence of the Treaties 

 of Tien-Tsin and Pekin upon commerce. — Silk. — Tea. — The Chinese sugar- 

 cane. — Various species of Bamboos employed in the manufacture of paper. — The 

 varnish-tree. — The tallow-tree. — The wax-tree. — Mosquito tobacco. — Articles of 

 import. — Opium. — The Tai-ping rebels. — Departure from Shanghai. — A typhoon 

 in the China sea. — Sight the island of Puynipet in the Caroline Archipelago. 



Shanghai, or Shanghai - Hein (the city near the sea), is 

 divided into the Chinese city proper, enclosed within walls 



