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own body. — Found a few of the Scarabeidoe in a heap of cow-dung — not 

 usual in China to leave the dung long enough for beetles to lay their eggs 

 in it. — Cabbage butterflies now begin to make their appearance. — The song 



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of the Turdus occipitalis heard in the coppices, on the peach and other trees, 

 uttering a grating note. — Long-tailed Jay feeds on the berries of the tallow- 

 tree. The untiring activity of this bird remarkable. — Tosterops, or " White 

 Eye," seen, fond of suspending itself as if in search of insects ; the habit 

 continues in the cage, where it is fed on Water-boatmen. — Ant-like Attus, 

 a new genus, found in Ants' nests : it is a spider exactly like an Ant in 

 figure, attitude, and place of abode. 



General Remarks. — 5. Cooks and victuallers busy in preparing soups of 

 every variety for the labourers who bring goods to market and fetch manure 

 back. A basin is sold for 4 cash. A working man can eat four of these 

 basins at a time, if very hungry six ; so that he has a hearty meal for less 

 than a penny. The lowest earning of a poor man is a groat per diem. — 

 9. Visit a kiln where shells of all kinds are burnt for lime. Fire blown by 

 revolving vanes like a dressing-machine. — 16. Visited a Tobacco Manufac- 

 tory, and remarked that the press somewhat resembles that used by paper- 

 cutters in England ; but pressure is not effected by means of a screw, but 

 with the help of ropes and levers. — 19. The leaves are cut into "Shag 

 Tobacco " here ; but the stems are closely packed and sent to Ningpo, where 

 they undergo a process which the workmen of that city alone understand. 

 A part of the Tobacco thus made is brought back to this port. — 23. Country 

 people put on thick clothes and shut their doors. — 24. Foam floating down 

 the river. — 25. The splitting of bamboos for the manufacture of salt bags 

 furnishes employment for many hundreds ; each half is divided into ten 

 wickers. Day's wages 140 cash. — 27. Consulted as to the site of a grave 

 under an impression that I must be well versed in such matters. Much 

 good or much evil is thought to betide the survivors from a right or wrong 

 position. — 30. Keang-se practitioners in this " te-le " and " fung shwuy," or 

 soothsaying, from the influence of the earth's local modalities, get large 

 monies by the trade ; but as they do not agree among themselves the people 

 are fain to ask counsel of the stranger. 



Outlines of Calendar for December, 1844. 



