. A residence among the Chinese: inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. f its being applied to the manufacture ofcommon bottles. I need only add that I have trusted in noinstance to hearsay evidence in bringing forwardthe information I have herein collected, but havecarefully examined each authority myself pre-viously to recording it upon paper; and perhaps itmay not be out of place for me to remark in con-clusion, that my teacher scouts the idea of associ-ating these bottles with the Pharaonic epoch asutte
. A residence among the Chinese: inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. f its being applied to the manufacture ofcommon bottles. I need only add that I have trusted in noinstance to hearsay evidence in bringing forwardthe information I have herein collected, but havecarefully examined each authority myself pre-viously to recording it upon paper; and perhaps itmay not be out of place for me to remark in con-clusion, that my teacher scouts the idea of associ-ating these bottles with the Pharaonic epoch asutterly visionary and absurd, it being impossible,he says, that vessels composed of a ware univer-sally acknowledged to be no older than the Handynasty, and inscribed with quotations from versesthat cannot, if the history of Chinese poetrybe true, have been written before the Tang dy- 92 MR. MEDHURRTS llEMARKS. Chap. V. nasty, could have found their way into tonihswhich were contemporary with the earhest re-corded events of Chinese chronology. He is, onthe contrary, decidedly of 02:)inion that the hottlesin question were manufactured during the Ijjtllc, same us fuuiid in Egjptiaii Tunibs. Chap. VI. BOAT-TEAVELLING. 93 CHAPTEE VI. Boat-travelling — Unsettled state of tlie conntn- — A midnight alarm— Old quarters at Tein-tung — A good Buddhist priest—Chinesefarmers — Their wives and families — Chinese womens passion, andits effects — Womens curse — The author is seized with fever — Anative doctor and his mode of treatment — Method of taking honeyfrom bees — Mosquito tobacco — Its composition and manufacture. The scenes and adventures which I have endea-voured to describe in the previous chapters, suchas making collections of insects and other objectsof natural history, paying and receiving visitsfrom Chinese friends, and examining collectionsof ancient works of art, although noted down inorder to give an idea of the manners and customsof the mo
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