IV CONTENTS. 



with the Chuiese ports — The Rev. C. Gutzlaft"— Harbour 

 of Macao — Jealousy of the Chinese government — Fruit 

 Wang, hee canes — The Casa Garden — Cave of Canioens 

 — Tributary verses to that poet . . . . 16 



CHAPTER III. 



Museum at Macao — Mr. Beale's splendid aviary and gardens 

 — The Paradise bird — Natural history of this splendid 

 creature — Anecdotes — Superb magpie — Loris — Descrip- 

 tion of the aviary . . . .35 



CHAPTER IV. 



Reeve's pheasants — Golden pheasants — Silver pheasants — 

 Blue pigeons — Stabbed-breast pigeons— Widow birds — The 

 horned Tragopan — The mandarin teal— Conjugal fidelity — 

 Nicobar pigeons — Peacock pheasants— Pink cockatoo— The 

 Ounderou monkey — A Pitta — Mr. Beale's gardens — 

 Rare productions of the vegetable kingdom — Native draw- 

 ing's — Extortionate custom . . .55 



CHAPTER V. 



Leave Macao for Whampoa — Entrance to the Bocca Tigris 

 — Country about Chuen, pee — Scene at Whampoa— Ap- 

 proach to Canton— The town and suburbs — 'J'he sailor's 

 cofFee-shop — Selling by weight — Dwarf orange trees — The 

 tea shrub— Visit to the celebrated Fa-tee gardens— Topics 

 of conversation — Exaggeration — Rambles in the suburbs 

 — The city gate— Manufactories — Sandal-wood . 81 



