CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
CHAPTER I. 
First View of China, and the Impressions produced — Land at 
Hong-kong — Description of its Harbour — Town of Victoria — 
Chinese Towns, Stanley and Aberdeen — Description of the Island 
— Effects of Eains — " Happy Valley " noticed — Chinese mode 
of " stopping the Supplies " — Views from the Tops of Mountains 
— Climate — Botany of the Island — Few Animals indigenous — 
Unhealthiness of the Settlement — Character of the Chinese 
Population — Mixed Character of Foreigners — Remarks on the 
Settlement as a Place of Trade Page 1 
CHAPTER II. 
Leave Hong-kong for Amoy — Opium Station at Namoa — Liberty 
the English enjoy there — Chinese Population, and their Modes 
of living — A new Admiral makes new Laws — Cherry Brandy 
alters his Views — The Account which, as in Duty bound, he 
sends to Peking — Amoy — Remarks on its Trade — Travels in 
the Country amongst the People — The want of a Tail — The 
Hills — Island of Koo-Lung-Soo — Effects of War — Strange 
Rocks — Unhealthy Nature of the Island — Botany and Birds 
— Visit to one of the chief Mandarins — His House and 
Grounds 15 
CHAPTER IIL 
Leave Amoy — Gale in the Formosa Channel — Driven back to 
Chimoo — Chimoo Bay — Chinese Mode of paying Taxes — Cha- 
racter of the Natives — Journey to the Hills — Chimoo Pagoda — 
Interesting Scenery — Attacked and robbed — My Servant's 
