foong passed--Pleasant season--Theatrical exhibition
--The Macaense--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 Macao--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 war--
Latest dispatches--Cause of the rebellion--Description of
the Kaffir by the traveller--Opinion of him by the resident
--Authori