CONTENTS. 



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teristics of the Villagers — Their Occupations — An Alarm— They 

 visit the Ship— Native Politeness— Language— Religious Ideas — 

 Diseases— Distinctions from Chinese Race 101 



CHAPTEE VIII. 



THE ISLANDS NOETH-EAST OF FORMOSA. 



Visit of a Chinese Admiral — Ke-lung Island — The Harbour from the 

 Sea — Pinnacle Island — Craig Island — The Wideawakes — Their 

 Breeding Place— Geological Structure of Craig Island— Hunt on 

 the Rocks — Grapsi — Agincourt Island — Pinnacle Rocks— Hoa-pin- 

 san and Tia-usu — The Raleigh Rock — The Dredge — Chromodoris — 

 Gigantic Foraminifera— Further Search — Return to Ke-lung . . 116 



CHAPTEE IX. 



HAITAN STRAITS AND COAST OF CHINA. 



Bed Discoloration of the Sea — Haitan Island and Straits — Middle 

 Island — New Anemone— Black Islet — Its Fauna and Flora — 

 Chinese Pirates — Rumbling Fish — Slut Island — New Nudibranchs 

 — Iridescent Seaweed — Trigger-Shrimp— Comatula — The River Min 

 — Pagoda Anchorage — Chinese Pagodas — Shwin-gan Passage- — 

 Luminous Sea— Plague of Flies — Insects at Sea — Wosung River — 

 Shanghai 129 



CHAPTEE X. 



HONG KONG TO LABUAN. 



Atmospheric Phenomena — Fiery-Cross Reef — Corals and Coral Fish — A 

 Wade on the Reef — Marine Animals — Gigantic Anemones — 

 Anemone-inhabiting Fish— Stormy Weather — Waterspout — Aspect 

 of Labuan — Vegetation— The Jungle — Camphor Trees — The Coal 

 Mines — Workings — Quality of the Coal— Geological Considerations 

 — Petroleum . . 145 



CHAPTEE XI. 



LABUAN. 



Bruni, the Capital of Borueo-Piracy— Establishment of the Colony of 

 Labiian — Its Objects— Natural, Productions — Pigs— Monkeys — 



