xii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



HONG KONG— CHINESE NEW YEAE, ETC. 



PAGE 



Chinese Pyrotechny — Salutations by Crackers— Eeligioiis Ceremonies — 

 Holiday-making— Family Groiips-^Children— Visits of Ceremony — 

 Boats — Toy-makers — Mandarin Processions in Canton — Irruption 

 of Beggars— Chinese Tame Birds — Shantung Lark — Tumblers — 

 Canaries — Mina — Street Kobbery in Hong Kong — Insecurity of the 

 Person — Police Regulations— Contrast with Canton — Character of 

 the Chinese— Facility of Escape to Canton 311 



CHAPTEE XX. 



CANTON. 



Strangeness of Canton — Bogue Forts — "Whampoa- Pagodas — Approach 

 to City — Boat Population - Pic-nio Boats — Streets of Canton — 

 Chops — Puutinqua's Garden — Fa-tee Nurseries — Gold-Fish — Defor- 

 mities — Diet of Chinese — Dog-eating — Salt Monopoly— Unity of 

 Chinese People — Its Causes — Insurrectionary Movements — Influence 

 of Western Civilization — Benefits of Western Trade — Pekin Me- 

 morial on Western Education — Proposed Introduction of Railways 

 — Language the Great Barrier — Prospects of Christianity . . 330 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



THE SURFACE POPULATION OF THE OCEAN. 

 Floating Animals — Capriciousness of their Appearance — Calms — The 

 Towing Net — Meduss— Noctural Animals — Formosa Channel — 

 Hydrozoa — Yellow Fly — Blue Animals in Deep Sea — Abundance of 

 Animals in Bad Weather — Lucernarian Jelly-fishes — Their Vast 

 Numbers — Peculiarities — Portuguese Man-of-War — Stinging Powers 

 — Fish Sheltering in their Threads — Sargasso Sea— Its Inhabitants 

 — Atlantic Calms — Compound Salpse — Three Forms — Chains of 

 Salpffi 352 



CHAPTEE XXII. 



OBSERVATIONS AT SEA. 



Flying-fish- Their Range— Object of their Flight— Always away from 

 the Ship — Mode of Flight — Absence of Vibration of Wings— Nature 

 of Impulse — A Flying-fish Hunt— Albicores — Abundance of Flying- 

 flah — Trichodesmium, or Sea Dust — Red Sea Conferva — Abundance 



