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Vill CONTENTS. 
the Island. — Botany and Birds. — Visit to one of the Chief 
Mandarins. — His House and Grounds - Page 30 
CHAPTER IV. 
Leave Amoy. — Gale in the Formosa Channel. — Driven back 
to Chimoo. — Chimoo Bay. — Chinese Mode of paying 
Taxes. — Character of the Natives. — Journey to the Hills. 5 
—Chimoo Pagoda. — Interesting Scenery. — Attacked and : 4 
robbed. — My Servant’s Opinion of the State of Matters. 
—Get back in safety to the Shore.— Novel Mode of 
crossing the wet fer — New Plants found. — The pao “A 
Chinchew - . 
CHAPTER V. 
Land at Chusan. — Description of the Island. — Town of 
Tinghae. — Agriculture. — Staple Productions. — Hemp 
Plants. — Palm of whith Ropes are made. — Trefoil cul- 
—Bamboos and other Trees. — Fruits.— Yang Mai and 
Kum-quat. — Inhabitants and Shops in Tinghae. See os 
Names on Shop Doors.—A new Language. — Mode 
classing Foreigners. — Diseases of the Eye common. — 
Salt-making. — Method of preparing the Vegetable Tallow. 
— Mode of hatching Eggs by artificial Heat - 61 
CHAPTER VI. 
First Visit to Ning-po. — The Bridge of Boats. — City and 
Pagoda. — Medical Missionary. — Temperature. — Chinese 
Mode of keeping themselves warm. — Charcoal Stoves. — 
My Lodgings. — Chinese Gamblers. — Description of Shops. 
— Silks and Embroidery. — Jade Stone. — Cotton Printing. 
F — Rope making. — Curiosity Shops and Contents. — “ Fur- 
niture Street” and Furniture. — Banking Establishment.— 
No prospect of Foreign Trade. — Temples, and Devotion of 
some of the People. — Dwarfed Trees. — Mode of Dwarfing 
explained. — Mandarins’ Gardens visited and described. — 
View from Northern Hills. — Agriculture.— Native Flora of 
these Hills. — Graves of the dead. — Coffins exposed - 
