CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE VII. 



Kintang or Silver Island — Its inhabitants and productions — Bay of 

 Chapoo — Advantages of an inland route — New year at Shanghae — 

 Flower-shops and flowers — Sacred bamboo — The Chrysanthemum 

 — Mode of cultivating it — Weather-prophets — Sail forHong-kong 

 — A game-ship — The Enkianthus — Canton seeds, and mode of 

 packing them — False notion regarding their being poisoned 



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CHAPTEE VIII. 



Foo-chow-foo — Jealousy of the mandarins — A polite way of getting 

 rid of a spy — Scenery amongst the mountains — Temple of Koo- 

 shan — Its priests and idols — Buddha's tooth and other relics — 

 Trees and shrubs — City of Foo-chow-foo — Chinese mode of getting 

 out when the gates are shut — Journey up the Min — Chinese 

 sportsmen and their dogs — A deer-hunt — Scenery about Tein- 

 tung — Wild flowers — Boadside temples — The bamboo — A priest 

 and siphon — Lakes of Tung-hoo ..... 133 



CHAPTEE IX. 



Leave Ning-po for the Bohea mountains — My guides — A flag and its 

 history — 'the Green Biver again — Spring scenery on its banks — 

 Yen-chow and Ta-yang — A storm in a creek — Boatwomen — A 

 Chinese Mrs. Caudle and a curtain lecture — Natural productions 



— Funereal cypress and other trees — Our boat seized for debt and 

 the sail taken away — A Chinese creditor — Town of Nan-che — 

 Its houses, gardens, and trade — Yale of Nan-che — Productions 

 and fertility — City of Chu-chu-foo — Moschetoes and Moscheto 

 "tobacco" — Arrive at Chang-shan 159 



CHAPTEE X. 



City of Chang-shan and its trade — Land journey — My chair and 

 chair-bearers — Description of the road — Trains of tea coolies — 

 Boadside inns — Boundary of two provinces — Dinner at a Chinese 

 inn — Value of the chopsticks — Adventure with two Canton men 



— City of Yuk-shan — Its trade and importance — Quan-sin-foo — 

 My servant speculates in grass-cloth — A Chinese test of respecta- 

 bility — Description of the country and its productions — Arrive at 

 the town of Hokow . 182 



