The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . pium Smoking 28 7 Smoking Utensils 30 8 Bargaining. (Coloured) 36 9 A ROxMANTic Garden 38 10 Chinese Mandarins 50 11 At Meals 60 12 Admiral Fong Yus Visiting card. (Coloured 62 13 Threshing. (Coloured) * 76 14—19 The Famine at Chefoo 77 20 Li Hung Changs Temple. Chefoo 78 21 CliEFoo. from the East Beach 94 22 The Thousand Rocks Temple. Amoy 103 23 Western Entrance to Thousand Rocks Temple 104 24 Another Yiew of Thousand Rocks Temple 106 25 The Fairys Foot Temple. Amoy 108 26 Execution of Namoa Pirates 126 27 After the Execution 132 28 Water-Buffa
The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . pium Smoking 28 7 Smoking Utensils 30 8 Bargaining. (Coloured) 36 9 A ROxMANTic Garden 38 10 Chinese Mandarins 50 11 At Meals 60 12 Admiral Fong Yus Visiting card. (Coloured 62 13 Threshing. (Coloured) * 76 14—19 The Famine at Chefoo 77 20 Li Hung Changs Temple. Chefoo 78 21 CliEFoo. from the East Beach 94 22 The Thousand Rocks Temple. Amoy 103 23 Western Entrance to Thousand Rocks Temple 104 24 Another Yiew of Thousand Rocks Temple 106 25 The Fairys Foot Temple. Amoy 108 26 Execution of Namoa Pirates 126 27 After the Execution 132 28 Water-Buffaloes 138 29 Entrance to Temple. Hoihow 162 30 A Chinese Pagoda 164 31 Sowing Seed. (Coloured) 165 32 Hongkong from Kowloon 177 33 Entrance to a Tamen 182 34 Picking Paddy. (Coloured) 188 35 Interior op a Temple. Canton 192 36 A Village of Boats. Canton 194 37 The Kwang Tap or Bare Pagoda. Canton 196 38 A River Scene 202 39 The Man-Mo Temple. Hongkong 206 40 Match Labels. From the authors collection. (Coloured).. 218 41 do. do. do. do. .. 221. 95. THE MYSTIC FLO AVERY LAND. SHANGHAI. Tl; T the close of a bright May afternoon, in the year 1887, the* V^ trim little barquentine—which had borne me safely across thesmnmer seas from the sandy shores of Africa—stood in once moretowards the welcome land—the mystic Flowery Land, or CelestialEmpire, of which I had heard and half-incrednlously read so muchabout in the time-honoured travels of Marco Polo, and where thewonders of an ancient and ingenious civilization tempt the eagertraveller to explore. Onward we sailed, with scpiare yards and wind on the starboardcpiarter. The nearer we approached the low-lying land the yellowerbecame the waters, until we swiftly, and almost silently, glidedinto the Huang-pu river; and the tired eye, long accustomed to thedreary ocean deserts, was gladdened and relieved by masses of brightgreen foliage waving above the long rushes that line the muddybanks, past which we quickly sped, occasiona
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