160 WITH BOAT AND GUN IN THE YANGTZE VALLEY. 



they are often broken and from time to time replaced by new ones. A grant of land was 

 made to the surviving members of the general's family, which is still held by descendants 

 of Yoh Fei. The head of the family a few years ago furnished, out of this land, a site for 

 the Church Missionary Society's Sanatorium on a hill above the tomb. 



A mile beyond the tomb of Yoh is the " Jadestone Well," a perfectly clear oblong 

 pool, in one of the paved courts of a small Buddhist temple, fed by a perennial spring 

 within the precincts, and stocked with a great number of fish, some of them carp of very 

 large size. The preservation of these fish, safe for ever from hook or net, is an act of merit 

 in the Buddhist code. There is a vivarium of a different kind at the Fantai's (Treasurer) 

 yamen within the city. This is a deep pool or tank in the outer quadrangle of the yamen, 

 surrounded by a carved stone balustrade and crossed by a bridge. It contains several very 

 large fresh-water tortoises which, like the fish just mentioned, are usually eager for a 

 chance feed. The popular belief is that they are kept in the pool to deter bold thieves from 

 the attempt, otherwise possible, to reach the treasure-vaults by diving through the pool. 

 The Fantai's yamen is at the northern foot of the Capitoline Hill of Hangchow, the 

 C/f'^«^/j«<2«^5/w«, hardly less famous in China than the West Lake. Picturesque in itself, 

 with its groups of building combined with fine trees, it is an admirable point of view from 

 which to view at once the huge city within its twelve-mile wall ; the suburbs north and 

 south only less extensive than itself ; the broad river, some two miles wide as it passes the 

 city, from its sources in the mountains of the south-west to Haining and the bay ; and the 

 lovely little lake which washes the city wall on the east, but on all other sides is shut in by 

 lofty hills, crowned and studded with the temples and towers of Buddhist or Taouist 

 monasteries. 



The High Street (Takiai) of Hangchow, running northward from the river suburb 

 through the Fengshan Gate, bends round the eastern spur of the hill and thence proceeds 

 nearly due north some two miles towards the Wtilin Gate. It makes one more angle at a 

 point a quarter of a mile within the gate just beyond the already venerable Roman Catholic 

 Mission. The great Jesuits of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, of whom M. Ricei was 

 the most conspicuous, settled here early in the latter century. The first Manchu Emperor 

 gave his sacred sanction to the title their mission house still bears as T'ienchu T^ang (God's 

 Hall). Trigault, the companion and the biographer of Ricei, was prior here ; and his ashes 

 are preserved under a Chinese inscription at Fangtsin, where, under beautiful hills some 

 five miles north-west of the city, the fathers have a small cemetery. They are no longer 

 Jesuits but of the society of St. Vincent de Paul, to which the Mission was transferred 

 during one of the temporary eclipses of the Jesuits. Early in the eighteenth century, in the 

 persecution under Yungching, the missionaries were expelled ; the church and other 

 buildings being confiscated and dedicated as a temple to T'ienhow, the Heavenly Empress. 

 They were restored, a mass of ruins in 1862 after more than a century of desecration, but 

 have been since rebuilt and extended. 



One other object of interest must be mentioned before our list closes — namely, the 

 Kungyuen or Examination Office, which is found not far to the east of the Roman mission 

 just mentioned. This is the scene of the examinations held on an average once in three 

 years, at which the graduates of the whole province compete for the second literary degree 



