x CONTENTS. 
Dinner with the Priests. — First Trial with Chopsticks. — 
Politeness! of the Chinese. — Usual Dinner Company. — 
My Bed. — Devotions of the Priests. — Wild Boar Hunt. — 
Narrow Escape. — Mode of frightening the Animals from 
the Bamboo Plantations. — Mountain Scenery. — Budhist 
Temple of Ah-yu- Wang.— Poo-to-san, or the Worshipping 
Island. —Its ‘Temples and Idols.— Bronze Gods. — Trees 
and Shrubs. — Gardens and pet Plants of the Priests. — 
Sale of Gods or Josses.— Offerings to the Gods in Shanghae 
and Ning-po.— Processions in Honour of the Gods. — 
Christian Missions. — Medical oe Society. — Roman 
Catholics - - . - Page 166 
CHAPTER XI. 
The Tea-plant of China. — The Species found in the Green | 
and Black Tea Districts. — Best Situation for Tea Plant- 
ations. — Remarks on their Management. — Seasons, and 
Method, of gathering the Leaves. — Manufacture of T 
Cottages amongst the Tea Hills. — Furnaces and Spite 
Pans. — First Application of Heat. — Rolling Process. — 
Exposure of the Leaves to the Air.— Second Heating. — 
Length of Time required. —Two kinds of Tea. — Difference 
in the Manufacture of each. — Selecting and packing Teas. 
— Appearance and Colour of the Leaf. — Peculiar Taste of 
Foreigners for Dyed Teas. — Good Sense of the Chinese. — 
Tea Merchants. — Their Visits to the Tea Hills. — Mode of 
buying from the small Growers. — Black Tea District in 
Fokien. — Teas divided into two Kinds. — Peculiar Method 
of preparing each. — Cause of their difference in Colour. — 
Flowers used in scenting the finer Teas.—Sir John 
Francis Davis’s Remarks on different kinds of Teas sold at 
Canton - - - 
CHAPTER XII. 
- Chusan Archipelago. — Storm in a small Boat.— Nearly upset. 
— Kin-tang, or Silver Island.—Its Inhabitants. — Their 
Surprise on seeing a Foreigner. — Yang-tse-kiang River. — 
_ Its numerous Sand Banks. — Our Schooner aground. — 
Novel Method of getting Assistance from the Chinese. — 
