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WANDERINGS IN CHINA, 
Chap. XV. 
times the thatch was completely off, the wood rotten, 
and the remains of the Chinamen of former days exposed 
to view. On one hill-side on the island of Chusan 
skulls and bones are lying about in all directions, and 
more than once, when wandering through the long 
brushwood in this place, I have been entangled by 
getting my feet through the lid of a coffin. 
Tombs on the Island of Chusan, 
I believe that the wealthy in these districts generally 
bury their dead, and some of them build very chaste 
and beautiful tombs. There are three or four very fine 
ones in the island of Chusan, where the paving in front 
of the mound which contains the body is beautiful, and 
the carving elaborate ; the whole of the stone-work is 
square, instead of circular as in the tombs in the south 
of China. Here, as at home — and I believe in every 
