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CHINA 
Pa'pa: “ Who is Big Topside man ? ” 
Child: “ He live in Church, has black whiskers and black boots.” 
(Sensation.) 
Macao, lat. 22° 21' N. 
April 12th, 1904. 
The small steamer that plies between Hongkong, Macao, and 
Canton afforded a new experience. Soon after starting I was much 
surprised on going below to see a stalwart quarter-master marching 
up and down with a Winchester repeating rifle over his shoulder. 
On asking this formidable individual for an explanation I found that 
the Chinese third-class passengers were confined to the lower deck, 
being kept there by steel grids covering the hatchways and padlocked 
down! It would appear that the natives of the country about the 
Chu Kiang, mostly pirates by descent, have not yet entirely abandoned 
that profession, 
“ And it is, it is a glorious thing 
To be a Pirate King! ” 
More than once in comparatively recent times the rascally pas¬ 
sengers have risen and seized the vessels employed in this trade, so 
that the owners have found it necessary to supply sufficient stands 
of arms for the European members of the crew. 
On this voyage fortunately no rising was attempted, and we 
reached the typically Portuguese town of Macao in due course. This 
tiny settlement looks for all the world like a bit of Eunchal, but that 
its streets are full of Chinamen, its harbour of junks and sampans. 
The forenoon of the next day was devoted to entomology, but un 
fortunately most of the available time was spent in looking for a 
good collecting ground. The country beyond the Portuguese boundary 
produced little besides the big Dragon-flies, which coursed up and 
down the innumerable ditches—appropriate enough to China. A 
visit to the very interesting garden of a wealthy Chinese produced 
nought but Terias hecabe; subsequent examination proved my three 
specimens to be respectively a fine large male of the wet-season form, 
a female of the dry-season form, which lacked the “ dog’s-head mark,” 
and a similar female of extreme “dry” type. 
A scrap of rough ground at the north-eastern corner of the settle¬ 
ment seemed the most promising spot, but by the time that I 
discovered it the day was far advanced. Here Ganoris canidia , the 
only White seen, was in abundance; a $ was very dark, a $ had a 
fairly strong sweet-briar scent. The little Blue, Zizera argia, f. 
