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ARRIVAL IN CHINA. 
Chap. XVIII. 
On the morning of the 29th of July, 1861, the 
* Fiery Cross/ Captain Crockett, in which I was a 
passenger, got her steam np and stood out to sea. 
As we passed rapidly onwards towards the mouth 
of the bay, the towns of Yokuhama and Kanagawa, 
with the well-known headlands in their vicinity, 
gradually disappeared from our view, and I hade 
farewell to the green hills and lovely scenery of 
Japan. We had a pleasant passage down the 
North Pacific Ocean, through Van Dieman’s Strait, 
and across the Tung-Hai or Eastern £jjea, and 
arrived at Shanghae in China on a hot morning 
on the 4th of August. My plants, which had 
come over in excellent order, were now landed 
and placed in Mr. Webb’s garden here, where 
they were to remain until the season arrived for 
shipping them to England. In the mean time it 
was my intention to visit the scenes of the late 
war in the north, and if possible the city of Peking, 
and the mountains beyond it. 
