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pearance on the portico. As soon as the injured man saw 

 liis master approaching, he flung himself before him implor- 

 ing aid, and exhibiting his face streaming with blood, and 

 the wound gaping open. The Tau-Tai ordered the man to 

 rise, and delivered him to the Chinese police. Occasionally 

 when a Chinese receives a wound in a quarrel of this nature 

 he will abstain from wiping off the blood-stains from his face 

 for weeks together, finding, it should seem, some satisfaction 

 in being able to exhibit them. This done, the procession 

 resumed its march. In front strode a man who from time to 

 time administered a sounding thwack to the gong, after 

 which he rushed through the streets bawling like a Stentor, 

 that the people might crowd on one side and leave the Tau- 

 Tai space to pass unobstructed. The rear was brought up 

 with police, catch-poles with long bamboo poles, and the 

 executioner with his axe — the never-failing attendant on such 

 occasions, — who accompanies it, however, only as a sort of 

 allegorical personage, to impress upon the yelling crowds 

 around the consequences of disobedience, and of rebellion 

 against constituted authority. 



The only important excm^sion we made from Shanghai 

 was to the Jesuit Mission of Sikkaw^i, twelve miles distant. 

 Our excellent host, Mr. James Hogg, of the well-kno^vn firm 

 of Lindsay and Co.,* and Consul for the Hanse towns, to 

 whose gi'eat kindness we are deeply indebted, was so kind as 



♦ Mr. Hogg has since left that firm, and with his brother, Mr. Edward J. Hogg, 

 has cstabUshed the firm of Hogg Brothers, in Shanghai. 



