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CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
A celebrated Buddhist Temple — Scenery around it — Its Trees and 
Shrubs — Buddhist Worship — Leave the Temple — Eeflections 
on Buddhism — Important Station for Christian Missionaries — 
Privations they would have to endure — Roman Catholics and 
their Labours — Christian Charity — Protestant Missionaries — 
Their Views as to the Interior of China — A Day-dream of China 
opened — Bamboo Paper — A Mandarin on a Journey — Town 
of Ching-hoo — Engage a Boat for Nechow — Return to Shang- 
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CHAPTER XVIIL 
Tea-plants, &c., taken to Hong-kong — Shipped for India — I sail 
again for the North — Safe Arrival of Tea-plants in India — 
Means taken in China to engage Tea-manufacturers — I visit 
Chusan — My Lodgings — A Mandarin who smoked Opium — 
His Appearance at Daylight — A Summer Morning in Chusan — 
An Emperor's Edict — City of Ting-hae — Poo-too, or Worship- 
ping Island — Ancient Inscriptions in an unknown Language — 
A Chinese caught fishing in the Sacred Lake — He is chased by 
the Priests — The sacred Nelumbium — My Holidays expire — 
Collections of Tea-seeds and Plants made — Return to Shanghae 
— Tea-manufacturers engaged — We bid adieu to the North of 
China 274 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Experiments with Tea-seeds — Best Method of sending them to 
distant Countries — How Oaks and Chestnuts might be trans- 
ported — Arrive at Calcutta — - Condition of the Collections — 
Proceed onwards — The Sunderbunds — Arrive at Allahabad — 
Reach Saharunpore — State of the Tea-plants — Chinese Manu- 
facturers located — I bid them farewell — Remarks on Tea Cul- 
tivation in India — Scenery about Nainee Tal — Victoria 
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