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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. 



I VISITED one evening the Temple of Honan, 

 situated a short distance on the opposite side of 

 the river to that on which the factories are built. 

 Having crossed, with my companions, in a boat, 

 we proceeded a little way down the river, and 

 landed at a dirty causeway near some timber- 

 yards, in which a quantity of fir-timber, of 

 China, of various dimensions, was piled with 

 an extreme degree of regularity. The entrance 

 to the temple or temples, and extensive grounds 



