--Sugarloaf Mountain--Off for
the Cape 9

CHAPTER II.

Telling Tales out of School--Double the Cape--The Flying
Dutchman--Albatross and Cape pigeons--Catching the
albatross--The man who ate the albatross--Superstition
of sailors--Man overboard--Lying to--Accident--Death--
The sailor's grave 20

CHAPTER III.

Island of St. Paul--Steering for Java Head--Land ho!--
Christmas Island--Straits of Sunda--A Beautiful Scene--
Sentimental Simile--Come to anchor--Anger Point--Village
of Anger--On shore in Java--Perfume of the East--Banyan
tree--The governor and Dutch hotel keeper--Welcome at
an inn--Attack on Anger Fort--Dutch officers' prowess,
and French!--The Javanese--Chinaman--Mosque--Mahomet--
Bazaar--Watering place 26

CHAPTER IV.

China Sea--Anchor off Macao--Canton River--Whampoa--Trip
to Canton--The San-pan--Pagodas--Lob Creek--Salt junks--
Description of a Junk--Mandarin, or search boats--Pirates--
Crowded state of River at Canton--Land at Factory Stairs--
Visit Vice-Consul--New China Street--A Cow-House--Wonders
of Canton--Factory gardens--Water parties--Buddhist temples,
and holy pigs--Dock-yard at Whampoa--American missionary at
Newtown--Bethel, and its pastor--Fourth of July--Back to
Macao--The Typa--The Barrier 33

CHAPTER V.

Passage ashore--A-ti--The Praya--Forts--Governor's Road--
Description of Macao--Murder of Amaral--Manoeuvring of Seu
and his triumph--A new Governor--His death--Council of
Government--View from Guia Fort--Marques's garden--Camoen's
grotto--Epitaph and doggerel written there--A beautiful
spot--Stealing fire from the gods--Fate of Prometheus 44

CHAPTER VI.

Up the Canton River again--Bay of Canton--Bocca Tigris--
Forts at the Bogue--Their construction--Conduct of Chinese
when attacked--The Feast of Lanterns--The Rebellion--Paddy
fields and mosquitoes--Back to Typa--Pleasant times--Blowing
up of a frigate! 54

CHAPTER VII.

Visit Hong-Kong--A beautiful morning--Harbor of Hong-Kong
--Settlement of Victoria--Line-of-battle ship Hastings--
Forecastle logic--An arrival from the Northern Seas--Her
B. M. S. Herald--Salutes--Description of Victoria-