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 SECTION VI. 



Secret signs at the dinner-table QQL 



The single chop-stiok, 204. — Lifting the covers from the dishes; picking out the greens, 

 205. — The rice on table, 206.— 



section vn. 



Secret signs on smoking tobacco or opium 206. 



Different ways of presenting the pipe, 206—208. — The cornet with tobacco; quatrains 

 on tobacco, fire and pipe, 209—211. — The Twan-yang-festival , 212. — Quatrains on the 

 tobacco-pipe, 213. — Roundelay on smoking tobacco; line of recognition of the Ash-drink- 

 ers, 214. — 



SECTION VIII. 



Secret signs at chewing betel 215. 



The character Clmng ; quatrain on the betel-nut, 215. — Quatrain on the betel-leaves; 

 quatrain on offering the betel-tray, 216. — Quatrains on the utensils of the betel-tray, 

 217—218.— 



SECTION IX. 



Badges which the brethern we ar upon the person 218, 



The diplomas; the Hung-cash; the red floss-thread; quatrains on it , 219. — The white 

 fan; quatrains on it, 220. — The warrant-flag; pass-words; quatrain on the warrant-flag, 

 221. — Amulets of Luh-kah and Luh-ting for protecting one's life in battle, 222. — Amu- 

 let for cultivating and regulating the person, 223. — Amulet of Lao-tsz, 224. — 



SECTION X. 



The original bases 224. 



The 1 x 9 Base, 224. — The 2x9 Base; the 4 x 7 Bases, 225—226. — The 12 i 



Bases of Canton, 227. — The five great Bases; the five warrant-Bases ; the ten great 

 Bases, 228. — Roundelay on the ten fingers, 229. — 



SECTION XI. 



List op the principal slang -expressions of the brotherhood 230. 



ADDITIONS AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 235. 



The village of Peh-shoui-ying ; Chang-sha-fu; the boatmen Sieh and Wu , 235. — 'The ten 

 branches and twelve sterns; sun, moon, mountains and streams; symbolical animals of 

 China; old prophecies concerning China; secret terms for Heaven, Earth, Sun and Moon; 

 the terminus of meditation , 236. — The female Budha; Phu-hien-phu-sah ; the cock; Grape- 

 wine; poem of the Vanguard, 237. — Poem of the Vanguard continued, 238—240.— 



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