WANDERINGS IN CHINA. 
SECOND JOURNEY. 
CHAPTER I. 
Second Visit to China — Shangliae — New English Town — Adopt 
the Dress of the Country — Start for the Interior — Mode of 
getting my Head shaved — City of Kea-hing-foo and its old 
Cemetery — Lakes and " Ling " — Mode of gathering the Ling 
— Great Silk Country — Increase in Exports — City of Seh- 
mun-yuen — Fear of Thieves — Hang-chow-foo — The " Garden 
of China " — Description of the City and its Suburbs — Gaiety of 
the People — Adventure in the City — Kan-du — A "Chop" — • 
A Chinese Inn — Boat engaged for Hwuy-chow — Importance of 
Hang-chow both for trading and " squeezing y 
On one fine afternoon in the month of September, 1848, 
I found myself once more in a China boat on the 
Shanghae river, sailing onwards in the direction of that 
ancient city. The first object which met my view as I 
approached the town was a forest of masts, not of junks 
only, which had been so striking on former occasions, 
but of goodly foreign ships, chiefly from England and 
the United States of America. There were now twenty- 
six large vessels at anchor here, many of which had come 
loaded with the produce of our manufacturing districts, 
and were returning filled with silks and teas. But I 
was much more surprised with the appearance which 
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