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hotel of the British Embassador in, 103
appearance of, from Hai-tien, ib.
hue and cry raised in, 120
gazette of, 391
contrasted with London, 420
prices of provisions in, 549
buildings and population of, compared with those of London, 581
Perouse de la, his account of a people resembling Chinese, 44
Pilots, difficulty of procuring them at Chu-san, 58
Plants, in Pe-tche-lee, 493
near Hang-tchoo-foo, 525
near Canton, 601
Plough, ceremony of, compared with the Isia, 487
Poetry, 280
Polarity of the magnet known to the Scythians, 41
Police of Pekin, 100
Polo Marco, valuable testimony of, 35
Polygamy an evil of small extent, 147
Population of floating craft, 84
and extent of China, 575
compared with those of Great Britain, 576
as given by Father Amiot, 582
Populousness of China, causes of, 587
Poor laws, none, 401
Porcelain, 304
Portraits of a Chinese and Hottentot, 50
among the presents, difficulty respecting, 114
Portuguese missionary, intrigues of, 18
Posture-masters, feats of, 204
Potatoes a certain crop, 585
Poverty of the Chinese, 495
Predestination, 454
Present of the governor of Ten-tchoo-foo, 65
Present of the officers deputed from court, 67
Press, liberty of, in China, 392
Prince of the blood, anecdote of, 182
Printing, 311
Procession from Tong-tchoo to Pekin, 85
of, 146
Property not secured by law, 177
laws respecting, 379
Prophecy, folly of being guided by, 456
Pulse, 345
Punishments, capital, not frequent, 378
Puppet-shew described, 201
Q
Quacks, tricks of, 347
great pests in England, 465
Quarries of stone, 598
R
Red-book, Chinese, 405
Religion, primitive, of China, 450
no longer exists, 486
Religious opinions, difficult sometimes to explain, 423
Revenues, 403
application of them, 407
vessels to collect them, 534
Rice erroneously supposed to cause opthalmia, 351
the staff of life in China, 547
mill for cleaning, 565
a precarious crop, 586
Road from Tong-tchoo to Pekin, 91
Roads neglected in China, 513
Romans, amphitheatres of, 224
Russia and China compared, 324
S
Sabbatical institution, none in China, 154
Sacrifices, 509
Salt, stacks of, near Tien-sing, 78
remarks on the use of, 510
Salutation, mode of, 108
expressions of, mark a national character, 189
Sameness throughout China, 5
Savages, custom of maiming the human body among, 73
Scenic representations of the Romans, 224
Scythians probably acquainted with the polarity of the magnet, 40
Scorpion, remarkable circumstance concerning one, 114
Scott, Doctor, saves a man from being buried alive, 165
Sculpture, 328
Seres not the same as Chinese, 436
Shing-moo, or holy mother, 473
Ships of the Chinese, 37
Silk, probably known to the ancients, 437
cultivation of, 571
Simplicity the leading feature of the Chinese, 312
Skating, amusement of, 211
Small-pox, when introduced, 450
Snake, bite of, how cured, 348
Society, state of, 138
domestic, 151
Soffala, Chinese found at, 45
Song of Moo-lee-wha, 316
Streets of Pekin, 94
Steam, effects of, known to the Chinese, 298
Sugar-mills, 539
Suicide seemingly encouraged, 178
Surgery, state of, 353
Sumatrans of Chinese origin, 51
Sword-blades of Gill much admired, 113
Swan-pan, 296
T
Tan, or Chinese altar, 452
Tao-tze, or immortals, sect of, 466
Tapers burnt on altars, 481
Tartar women, dress of, 97
Mantchoo, scarcely distinguishable from Chinese, 184
Tartary, heights of, remarks on, 438
Taste, 331
Taxes, moderate, 400
fixed, 402
Tcho-ka, an island in the Tartarian sea, 44
Tea a supposed preventive of certain disorders, 350
Tea-plant, trick played by the Chinese concerning, 538
observations on the culture of, 572
Temple, Embassy lodged in a, 421
in a cavernous rock, 596
Terrace system of agriculture, 530
Ten-tchoo-foo, present of the governor of, 65
Tien-sing, approach to the city of, 71
Ting-hai, visit to the city of, 57
Ting-nan-tchin, name of the Chinese compass, 40
Titsingh Dutch Embassador to Pekin, 9
Towers of the walls of Pekin, 91
Trackers of the yachts pressed into this service, 162
Trade discouraged, 399
how conducted at Canton, 610
Tranquillity, internal, 395
Travellers see objects differently, 3
Treason punishable in the 9th generation, 372
Trial of an English seaman for killing a Chinese, 618
Tribunal of Mathematics, 110
some account of, 111
Ty-phoon, what, 34
strength of one, 41
Tyrus, commerce of, described by Ezekiel, 48
V
Van Braam, application of, to Batavia, 8
happy turn of mind of, 13
his account of an Imperial banquet, 210
Vanity, national, of the Chinese, 189
Van-ta-gin, 70
kind attentions of, 604
Varuna compared with Neptune and Hai-vang, 470
Venereal disease not common, 352
Viceroy of Canton, haughty conduct of, 10
swallows his snuff-box, 179
Villa belonging to the Emperor, 102
Virgin Mary and Shing-moo compared, 472
Vishnu compared with Jupiter and Lui-shin, 470
Visiting Tickets very ancient in China, 190
Visitors at Yuen-min-yuen, 110
Vocabulary, brief one of Chinese words, 243
Volcanic products not found in China, 600
Vossius, Isaac, his opinion of the Chinese, 26
W
Wall of China, 333
of Pekin, 91
Watch made by a Chinese, 306
Wealth expended to pamper the appetite, 552
Weather, stormy in the Streight of Formosa, 34
Wheel to raise water, 540
Women, dress and appearance of, at Tien-sing, 72
Tartar commonly seen in the capital, 97
reflexions on the condition of, 138
condition of in China, 140
employments of, 143
on the Imperial establishment, 234
not prohibited from frequenting temples, 480
of Sau-tchoo-foo, appearance of, 517
articles of sale, 518
course features of those of Kiang-see, 541
Words, number of, in the Chinese language, 265
Y
Yachts, trackers of, 501
Yellow Sea, observations on, 25
commerce of, 60
river, ceremonies used in crossing, 509
Yuen-min-yuen, miserable apartments at, 108
gardens and buildings of, 122
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[1] Monsieur (I beg his pardon) Citoyen Charpentier Cossigny.
[2] This expression alludes to the ancient opinion that China was surrounded by the sea, and that the rest of the world was made up of islands. Yet though they now possess a tolerable notion of geography, such is their inveterate adherence to ancient opinion, that they prefer retaining the most absurd errors, rather than change one single sentiment or expression that Confucius has written.
[3] The expence occasioned to the court of China by the British embassy, will be stated in a subsequent chapter.
[4] In the very next page (202) he however corrects himself, by observing that either the Chinese or Malays navigated as far as Madagascar.
[5] If any argument were wanting to prove the originality of the magnetic needle as used in China, the circumstance of their having ingrafted upon it their most ancient and favourite mythology, their cycles, constellations, elements, and, in short, an abstract of all their astronomical or astrological science, is quite sufficient to settle that point. Those who are acquainted with the Chinese character will not readily admit that their long established superstitions should be found incorporated on an instrument of barbarian invention.
[6] Plin. lib. xvii. cap. 3.
[7] I should not have taken notice of this odious vice, had not the truth of its existence in China been doubted by some, and attributed by others to a wrong cause. Professing to describe the people as I found them, I must endeavour to draw a faithful picture, neither attempting to palliate their vices, nor to exaggerate their virtues.
[8] Adam's Roman Antiquities.
[9] Mr. Torreen.
[10] Linn. Systema Naturæ.
[11] See Gibbon, under Emperor Justinian; and Menagiana, in which is given the translation of a very extraordinary passage from Procopius.
[12] T. Calpurnius.
[13] Duke of Buckingham. See the notes on this character in Shakespear's Henry VIII. Act. i, Scene 2.
[14] For the curiosity of those who may be inclined to speculate in etymological comparisons between the Chinese and other languages, I here subjoin a short list of words in the former, expressing some of the most striking objects in the creation, a few subjects of natural history, and of such articles as from their general use are familiar to most nations, these being of all others the most likely to have retained their primitive names. The orthography I have used is that of the English language.
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