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| CHAPTER XVII. |
| Amoy—Its trade—Cause of decay—Infanticide—Manner of destroying female infants—China woman's confession—Environs—British and American cemeteries—The fatal rock—Koo-lung-Seu—Chinese gunnery—Chinese Customs—Marriage—Death—Manner of mourning—Pagoda of Nan-tae-Woo-Shan |
142 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| Formosa—Description of the island—Its productions—Coal mines—Metals—The Dutch possessions—Their expulsion—Proper policy of civilized powers |
148 |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
| Leave Amoy—Arrive in Macào Roads—Live ashore—Well guarded—Night calls—Ventriloquist at Typa Fort—Ordered on board—Up to Whampoa—Clipper Ships—Over to Hong-Kong—Coronation day—Independence day—Hurried on board—The mail—Ty-foongs |
154 |
| CHAPTER XX. |
| Ty-foong passed—Pleasant season—Theatrical exhibition—The Macàense—Philharmonic Society—Italian Opera—Awaiting orders for home—Thoughts of home and friends—Idea suggested by the setting sun—Poetry—Maladie de Pays—Its effects upon the Swiss—A remedy—My own experience, and manner of Cure |
161 |
| CHAPTER XXI. |
| Haul up all standing—Boat races—Interest in the sport—Excitement general—Arrangements—Jockeyism—Regatta—Preparations—The start—The race—The result—Launch and first cutter—Race described con-amore—Suggestion of an old salt—Satan and sailors |
166 |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
| Effects of the race—Suppers and their effects—The stuff that dreams are made of—A scrape in the Typa—Again at Whampoa |
172 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
| Anson's Bay—Hong-Kong again—P. & O. Company's hulk takes fire—Escape of captain's wife—Toong-Koo Bay—Piracy—Fire at Macào—Wolf again at Whampoa—Amateur theatricals at Canton—Melancholy musings |
177 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. |
| Commodore arrives at last—Preparations for a start—Delay—Washington's Birthday—The clipper Challenge—Prisoners from her—Homeward bound!—Reflections on leaving—Case of small-pox—Second visit to Anger |
184 |
| CHAPTER XXV. |
| No mosquitoes at Anger—The land of the East—A sketch—Advantages of Anger—Dolce-far-niente—Island of Java—Batavia—Bantam—Comparison between Anger and Singapore |
189 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. |
| Pass through Sunda Strait—H. B. M. S. Rattler—Catch the trades—A learned opinion on diaries—Extracts from diary—Isle of France—Its romance—Bourbon—Mauritius—Cape of Good Hope—Description—Trouble in getting in—Table Bay and Mountain |
194 |
| CHAPTER XXVII. |
| Land at Cape Town—Hotels and widows—Drive to Constantia—Description of drive—Price of wine—Manumission of slaves—Seasons at the Cape—The town through a microscope, &c. &c. |
200 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
| Settlement of Cape Town—Its productions—The Kaffir
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