To-stone.—Pictures on so-called "rice-paper."—Canton English.—Notices on the Chinese language and mode of writing.—Manufacture of ink.—Hospitality of German missionaries.—The custom of exposing and murdering female children.—Method of dwarfing the female foot.—Sir John Bowring.—Branch Institute of the Royal Asiatic Society.—An ecclesiastical dignitary on the study of natural sciences.—The Chinese in the East Indies.—Green indigo or Lu-Kao.—Kind reception by German countrymen.—Anthropometrical measurements.—Ramble to Little Hong-kong.—Excursion to Canton on board H.M. gun-boat Algerine.—A day at the English head-quarters.—The Treaty of Tien-Tsin.—Visit to the Portuguese settlement of Macao.—Herr von Carlowitz.—Camoens' Grotto.—Church for Protestants.—Pagoda Makok.—Dr. Kane.—Present position of the colony.—Slave-trade revived under the name of Chinese emigration.—Excursions round Macao.—The Isthmus.—Chinese graves.—Praya Granite.—A Chinese physician.—Singing stones.—Departure.—Gutzlaff's Island.—Voyage up the Yang-tse-Kiang.—Wusung.—Arrival at Shanghai.

355 CHAPTER XV. SHANGHAI. A stroll through the old Chinese quarter.—Book-stalls.—Public Baths.—Chinese Pawnbrokers.—Foundling hospital.—The Hall of Universal Benevolence.—

Sacrificial Hall of Medical Faculty.—City prison.—Temple of the Goddess of the Sea.—Chinese taverns.—Tea-garden.—Temple of Buddha.—Temple of Confucius.—Taouist convent.—Chinese nuns.—An apothecary's store, and what is sold therein.—Public schools.—Christian places of worship.—Native industry.—Cenotaphs to the memory of beneficent females.—A Chinese patrician family.—The villas of the foreign merchants.—Activity of the London Missionary Society.—Dr. Hobson.—Chinese medical works.—Leprosy.—The American Missionary Society.—Dr. Bridgman.—Main-tze tribe.—Mission schools for Chinese boys and girls.—The North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.—Meeting in honour of the Members of the Novara Expedition.—Mons. de Montigny.—Baron Gros.—Interview with the Táu-Tái, or chief Chinese official of the city.—The Jesuit mission at Sikkawéi.—The Pagoda of Long-Sáh.—A Chinese dinner.—Serenade by the German singing-club.—The Germans in China.—Influence of the Treaties of Tien-Tsin and Pekin upon commerce.—Silk.—Tea.—The Chinese sugar-cane.—Various species of Bamboos employed in the manufacture of paper.—The varnish tree.—The tallow tree.—The wax-tree.—Mosquito tobacco.—Articles of import.—Opium.—The Tai-ping rebels.—Departure from Shanghai.—A typhoon in the China sea.—Sight the island of Puynipet in the Caroline Archipelago.

416 CHAPTER XVI. THE ISLAND OF PUYNIPET. Native boats in sight.—A pilot comes on board—Communications of a white settler.—Another pilot.—Fruitless attempts to tack for the island.—Roankiddi Harbour.—Extreme difficulty in effecting a landing with the boats.—Settlement of Réi.—Dr. Cook.—Stroll through the forest.—Excursions up the Roankiddi River.—American missionaries.—Visit from the king of the Roankiddi tribe.—Kawa as a beverage.—Interior of the royal abode.—The Queen.—Mode of living, habits and customs of the natives.—Their religion and mode of worship.—Their festivals and dances.—Ancient monumental records and their probable origin.—Importance of these in both a historical and geological point of view.—Return on board.—Suspicious conduct of the white settler.—An asylum for contented delinquents.—Under weigh for Australia.—Belt of calms.—Simpson Island.—"It must be a ghost!"—Bradley Reef.—A Comet.—The Solomon Islands.—Rencontre with the natives of Malaýta.—In sight of Sikayana. 551 CHAPTER XVII. THE CORAL ISLAND OF SIKAYANA. Natives on board.—Good prospects of fresh provisions.—An interment on board.

—A night scene.—Visit to the Island Group.—Fáole.—Trip ashore to Sikayana.—Narrative of an English sailor.—Cruelty of merchantmen in the South Sea Islands.—Tradition as to the origin of the inhabitants of Sikayana.—A king.—Barter.—Religion of the natives.—Trepang.—Method of preparing this sea-slug for the Chinese market.—Dictionary of the native language.—Under sail.—Ile de Contrariété.—Stormy weather.—Spring a leak.—Bampton Reef.—Smoky Cape.—Arrival in Port Jackson, the harbour of Sydney.

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