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lowing check upon him, which proved useful more than 
once, and with others besides Wang : — It may be recol- 
lected that, during my visit to the green-tea country in 
the autumn before, I discovered a beautiful evergreen 
shrub, and that was the only place in which I had met 
with it. Wang was therefore told that he must bring 
me some plants of this as well as the tea-plants, and that 
if he did not do so he would have no claim to the pro- 
mised reward. He returned to Ning-po about five 
weeks after the other servant, bringing me only a few 
plants and a very long bill. However, he had really 
been in Hwuy-chow, and what he brought me were 
valuable. 
Whilst waiting for these men at Ning-po I determined 
to pay a visit to my old quarters, the temple of Tein- 
tung, situated amongst the hills about twenty miles 
from this town. On my way there I fell in with an old 
friend (Mr. Wills, of Shanghae), who was enjojdng a few 
days' sport amongst the Tein-tung hills. During his 
rambles he had accidentally met with a band of Chinese 
sportsmen, and had made an engagement with them for 
the following day. I gladly agreed to join the party, 
being most anxious to witness the manoeuvres of the 
natives in this character. 
We started early the next morning for the appointed 
rendezvous, where we found the Chinamen, with their 
guns and dogs, already waiting for us. The group was a 
most striking one, as may easily be imagined. The leader 
of the band was one of the best specimens of a Chinaman 
I had ever seen. He was tall, well made, and had a fine 
high forehead and open expression of countenance. Here 
