CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Arrive at Hong-kong-Excitement on the arrival of the mail- - Page 1 CHAPTER II. My object in coming north-Difficulty in procuring tea-plants- No - Adopt the dress of CHAPTER III. Leave Hang-chow-foo- A China passage-boat -- - 19 Scenery and natural - · A productions Remarkable hills Our fellow-passengers smoker of opium - I am discovered to be a foreigner - City of water-mills Botany of the country A valuable palm-tree - CHAPTER IV. Page 45 City of Wae-ping-Threatened attack from boatmen - A false alarm 67 CHAPTER V. Its height above the sea- - Rock - Sung-lo-shan-Its priests and tea - -- CHAPTER VI. 86 My reception in the house of Wang's father A smoky Chinese 96 CHAPTER VII. Kintang or Silver Island - Its inhabitants and productions — Bay of CHAPTER VIII. Page 115 Foo-chow-foo-Jealousy of the mandarins - A polite way of getting CHAPTER IX. 133 Leave Ning-po for the Bohea mountains - My guides - A flag and its - -- Α Natural productions Funereal cypress and other trees - Our boat seized for debt and Its houses, gardens, and trade-Vale of Nan-che-Productions and fertility City of Chu-chu-foo - "tobacco"-Arrive at Chang-shan -- Moschetoes and Moscheto CHAPTER X. - City of Chang-shan and its trade Land journey - My chair and - 182 b - CHAPTER XI. - Town of Hokow― Its situation, trade, and great importance - Bohea CHAPTER XII. Page 197 First view of the Bohea mountains — Mountain pass-A noble fir- A rugged road and another pass-A gale amongst the mountains- CHAPTER XIII. - 208 - Woo-e-shan - Ascent of the hill - Arrive at a Buddhist temple - CHAPTER XIV. - 223 Stream of "nine windings"-A Taouist priest-His house and temple tain scenery · The lance-leaved pine Rocks, ravines, and water- falls-A lonely road-Trees-Birds and other animals-Town of 240 |