CONTENTS. 
chants compared with Chinese — Prejudices against traders in 
Japan — Foreign officials and these prejudices — War with Japan 
not improbable Page 281 
CHAPTER XYIH. 
Narrative resumed — Exciting times— Supposed attacks on M. de 
and others — "V isit from the Governor of Kanagawa — Object o 
visit — He inspects my collections —A question regarding 
safety — A cautious and consolatory reply — Fences repaired 
spiked — Guards stationed round the foreign dwellings — M3 
searches in Japan come to an end — Plants put into Ward’s cast- 
Curiosity of the natives — Kindness of Captain Yyse — Adieu 1 
Japan — Arrival in China 29 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Leave Shanghae for Peking — Port of Chefoo — Agricultural and 
natural products — The Pei-ho river — Arrival at Tien-tsin — Salt- 
mounds — Suburbs — Mean buildings — Active trade — Noisy 
coolies — Shops — Large warehouses —Hawkers — Gambling pro- 
pensities of the people — The city — Ruinous ramparts — Filthy 
streets— Surrounding country— Salt plain— Gardens and nurseries 
— Winter houses for plants — Fruit-trees cultivated in pots— 
Tien-tsin 305 
CHAPTER XX. 
The people of Tien-tsin — Visit to a gentleman’s house — Reception — 
Street beggars — Begging musicians — Civil hospital established 
by the English — Dr. Lamprey’s report — Chinese poorhouse — 
Fat beggars — Climate and temperature — Dust-storms — Remark- 
able size of natural productions — Large men and horses — Shantung 
fowls — Gigantic millet, oily grain, and egg-apples — Jute — 
Vegetables in cultivation — Imperial granaries — Use of millet and 
jute stems — Foreign trade — New settlement for foreign merchants 
— The future of Tien-tsin as a centre of trade .. . .. 326 
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