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CHAPTER III. 



BASHEE AND MEIA-CO-SHIMAH GROUPS. 



Macao Its appearance from the Roads Baton A Marriage Feast 

 Rejoicings over the Dead Exhibition of the Magic-Lanthorn 

 Appearance and Dress of the Women Vegetation Insects 

 Anecdote of a Spider Pirate-Crabs Story about a Land-Crab 

 Beautiful Molluscous Animal Singular Crustacean Sea-Eggs 

 Star-Fish Red-blooded Worms Sharks Meia-co-shimahs 

 Lost in the Woods Scenery A natural Amphitheatre Proposed 

 scheme of abduction Gratitude of the Natives Mountain Scenery 

 The Screw-Pine The Hibiscus, Banyan, Camelia, and other 

 plants Combination of Temperate and Tropical Forms Palms 

 Bamboo Torches Edible Cryptogamic Plant Vegetables 

 Reptiles Blue-tailed Lizard The Diodon Enormous Octopi 

 The Kraken Habits of Cephalopoda Mollusca used as food 

 Modes of defence of Mollusks Enemies of Mollusks New Genus 

 of DorididaB Habits of Crustaceans Insects Glow-Worm 

 The Centipede The Scorpion Spiders Aspect of the Coral- 

 reefs Zoophy tes . 



ON the 14th of September, 1843, we arrived at Hong- 

 Kong, where we remained till the 29th of October, when 

 we again made sail, and, on the 30th, anchored in Macao 

 roads. Our short stay at this place did not, however, 

 offer much to the notice of the naturalist, and I have 

 already, in the body of the work, alluded to the busy 



