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made his headquarters. Excursions were made to Yingtak and 

 Shiuchovv on the North River north of Canton, to Lohfau Moun- 

 tain east of Canton and north of Shekkmg, to Wampoa lo miles east 

 of Canton, where the Wilkes Expedition made collections, and to 

 Macao, a Portuguese possession 40 miles from Hongkong and the 

 oldest foreign settlement in this region. 



A more extended trip was made in company with Mr. McClure 

 of the Canton Christian College, to Indo-China and the Island of 



Fig. 42. — ^A street scene in Yingtak, on the North River, al)out 80 miles north of 

 Canton. The bundles of stalks are to be used for firewood. 



Hainan. Going from Hongkong to Haiphong, a stop was made at 

 Pakhoi on the southern coast of Kwantung Province. Here forty- 

 six species of grasses were obtained in a few hours on the sandy 

 areas and rocky hills. Haiphong is the port of Tongking. Indo- 

 China is a French Colony (officially French Indo-China), consisting 

 of five divisions, Tongking, Annam, Cambodia, Cochin-China, and 

 Laos. The objective in Indo-China was Hue, the capital of Annam. 

 Loureiro, a Portuguese botanist, resided here and published in 1790 a 

 flora of Cochin-China and it was to determine the identity of many of 



