CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Visit to the Temple of Honan — Colossal figures — The priest- 

 hood — Votive offerings — Mummery — Holy pigs— Their 

 corpulency — The hall of the factory — Duck-boats — Ala- 

 baster—Chinese snake— Leave Canton and return to 

 Macao— Visit the Lappa Island — Hill-pines — Mass of 

 granite rocks — Their sonorous qualities — Tanka-boats — 

 Chinese burial-grounds— Cassilhas Bay— Manufacture of 

 ropes — Portuguese ladies at Macao— Origin of that name 

 — Another temple near Macao . . .107 



CHAPTER VII. 



The Jesuits' church and college of San Jose— The gardens — 

 Sail from Macao for Singapore — Pass Pedro Blanco— Island 

 of Singapore — The town— Treaty for the cession of the 

 island to the British — Hills — Salubrity of the settlement — 

 European burial-gi'ound — Vicinity of the settlement — 

 Government hill — Grand prospect — Commercial prosperity 

 — New roads ..... 124 



CHAPTER VIH. 



Description of an Ungka ape — His habits — Anecdotes of 

 him— His death — Dissection . . . 142 



CHAPTER IX. 



The Botanic Garden— The Croton tiglium— The true Cam- 

 phor-tree— The Malaleuca Kayu-puteh— Excursion into 



