of, 466; subject to floods, ibid.; condition of European traders, 468; China-street and Hog-lane, 469; population of town, 471
Cantonese, their superior seamanship, ii. 415
Boots, complimentary ceremony of, i. Caps, i. 385
Bowring, Sir John, i. 177
Braves, a disorderly militia, i. 171
Carnivora, larger kinds scarce, ii. 279 Carving in wood and ivory, ii. 199 Cathcart, Colonel, sent to China, his death, i. 60
Bremer, Sir G., captures Bogue forts, i. Catholic missions, i. 20; scandalous
China and its institutions, ii. 407. Budhism in China, ii. 37; Indian his- tory of, 38; five interdicts, 40; priests, ibid.; resemblance to po- pery, 41, 53, 57; Chinese objections to, 47; account of, by Mr. Gutzlaff, 50; scriptures in a language un- known to the vulgar, 57; heaven and hell, 60; doctrines, 63; Chinese, 67 Buffalo, small species, ii. 283 Butcher, singular case of, i. 89
Calculating dish, ii. 244
Camellia, is allied to tea-plant, ii. 294 Camphor, used in medicine, ii. 227; timber trees producing, 296 Canal, Imperial, described, i. 185 Candles, mode of making, ii. 193 Cangue, or moveable pillory, punish-
ment of, i. 285 Canton, siege of, i. 150; riot, 159; another riot, 160; another, 167; trained volunteers, 168; expedition to, 170
Canton, streets of, i. 453; shops de- scribed, 454; trading associations, ibid.; frequent fires, 457; temples, 464; foreign factories, confined state
disputes of priests, 22; who are denounced and expelled, 25
Celibacy of Budhist priests, ii. 53 Censors, public, i. 268
Census of population, ii. 348 Cercle de Craie, French translation of a play, ii. 154
Ceremonial usages, i. 355 Chain-pump described, ii, 258 Chalky formation, north of Peking, ii.
Chapoo captured, i. 156 Character, good and bad traits of, i. 300 Charms, ii. 94
Checks to population, of the positive kind, ii. 352
Chemistry, practice of, ii. 235 Chě-keang, province of, i. 198 Children, i, 331
Chinese compared with other races of men, i. 307; squabbles with, near Lintin, 109
Chinkeang-foo captured, i. 158 Chinhae captured, i. 154 Chow, dynasty of, i. 221 Christ, Chinese account of, ii. 54 Chusan, first capture, i. 147; second, 153; restored, 166
Civil code of present dynasty, ii. 134 Clanship, prevalence of, in Canton and Fokien, i. 459
Classification of objects in nature, ii. 268 Climate and meteorology, ii. 319 Coal, near Peking, ii. 309; near Poyang Lake, 310; at Canton, 313; its use described by Marco Polo, 314
Coasting trade, restrictions on, ii. 353 Cochin-China, mission to, i. 66; tribu- tary to the empire, 211
Coin of base metal, ii. 367; its in- conveniences, 369; of silver not adopted, 370 Comets, ii. 249
Davis, Sir John, reaches Hongkong, i. 160; receives visit from Keying, 165; expedition to Canton, 170 Debtor and creditor, law of, i. 292 Diet of poor indiscriminate, i. 374 Diet and regimen, essay on, ii. 226 Difficulties of language overrated, ii. 103
Commerce, early, i. 12, 17; internal, ii. 378; foreign, at Canton, 380 Company's trade, termination of, i. 110 Compass, early knowledge of, ii. 184; said to point south, 186; variation of at Peking long known, ibid. Concubinage, legalized, effects of, i. Dispensary at Macao, ii. 241
Dinner, invitation to, i. 361; forms attending, ibid.; description of one, 363
Conduct is fate, tale in proof, ii, 91 Confucius, his era, i. 222; hereditary honours of his descendants, 320; birth of, ii. 1; character of his ethics, 3
Conjurors, i. 379
Consoo fund, its origin, ii. 382
Diplomatic forms, i. 356 Discussions in 1829, i. 98
Distillation, process of, ii. 240 Divination, mode of, ii. 100 Division of labour, its advantages ex- plained by Mencius, ii. 17; an argu- ment for different orders in society. 18
Divorce, grounds of, i. 326 Doctor at Canton, ii. 228
Contrariety of usages to our own, i. Dog, described by White of Selborne,
Conveyance of goods, i. 411
Dogs used for food, i. 374
Cookery, Chinese, resembles French, i. Doris, H. M. ship, in China, i. 78.
371; steam applied to, ii. 240 Corea, a tributary country, i. 211 Corporations at Canton, i. 455 Corundum, ii. 317
Costumes described, i. 383; theatrical,
Cotton, mode of cleaning, ii. 193 Council of state, i. 267
Critique on penal code, from Edinburgh Review, i. 292
Croton Sebiferum, candles made from, ii. 193; tree described, 298
Crows sacred birds, ii. 98
Drama described, ii. 139 Drawing and painting, ii. 213 Dress, summer and winter, i. 385 Drinking games, i. 378 Drug-shops, ii, 226
Drury, Admiral, at Canton, i. 74 Ducks reared in boats, i. 375 Dutch settle on Formosa, i. 26; their contests with the Chinese, 28; are expelled by force, 31; embassy suf- fered by performing the ko-tow, 81 Dwarf trees, ii. 303
Cultivation, principal objects of, ii. 326 Dwellings described, i. 397
Cycle of sixty years, ii. 250
Davis, Mr., succeeds Lord Napier, i. Eating-houses, i.376
Education, influence of, i. 257; very general, 332; process of, 333 Elliot, Captain, chief superintendent, i. 124; delivers opium to Lin, 135 Embassy from Marcus Antoninus, i. 3; of Earl Macartney, 60; of Lord Amherst, 80; from China to Khan of the Tourgouths, ii. 130 Emigration, obstacle to, ii, 345 Emperor is worshipped with divine honours, i. 263; has absolute dis- posal of succession, 265; is high Fokien province, i. 199
Fish, predilection for, i. 375; of China, ii. 290; modes of taking, 342 Fishing-birds, ii. 288, 342 Five Canonical Works, ii. 18 Flint, seizure and imprisonment of Mr.,
priest of heaven, 266
Emperor, new, in 1850, i. 176 English, first visit of, i. 33; trade at Formosa, 37; confined by Tartar dynasty to Canton, 38 Entertainment, imperial, described, i.
Ethics of Chinese fairly considered, ii.
Eunuchs, former power of, i. 227 Examinations, public, i. 334 Expedition to Macao from Lord Wel- lesley in 1802, i. 65; from Lord Minto in 1808, 73
Factory defended by guns, i. 101; invaded by Chinese, 103 Factories at Canton, i. 466; subject to floods, ibid.
Fashions not liable to sudden vicissi- tudes, i. 390
Fatalism of the Chinese, ii. 90; some superior to it, 91 Feast conferred by emperor, i. 359 Festivals, i. 345; meeting the spring, 351; imperial ploughing, 352; of silkworms and weaving, ibid.; of dragon-boats, 354; for the dead, ibid.
Flowers described, ii. 306
Fŏ, or Budha, temple of, near Canton, ii. 42; Chinese objections to his doc- trines, 47; Paradise and Hell, 60
Food and drink, i. 370
Foochow foo, new consulate, i. 159 Foreign intercourse, Chinese maxim re- garding, i. 54
Forensic medicine, practice of, ii, 229 Formosa, European settlements at, i. 26, 37; account of the island, 209
Forts near Canton, armament of, i, 479 ; forced by frigates, ibid.
Fortunate Union, a romance, outline of,
Four Books, notices of, ii. 8 Fraternities, illegal, i, 459 Freemasonry, i. 462
French, contests with English at Can- ton, i. 47; consul delivers up a man, Fruits described, ii, 302; trees planted who is strangled, 53
on banks of rivers, 334 Funeral rites, i. 337 Furniture of apartments, i. 403.
Games and amusements, i. 378 Gambling, i. 377 Gardening, ornamental, i. 403, ii. 214 Garments, for winter and summer, i. 385
Fire of Canton in 1822, i. 94; great General, duties of a, i. 478
Fire-arms forbidden, i. 383
Geographical sketch of empire, i. 180 Geography, science of, ii, 246
Geological notices, from Peking to Can- Hong monopoly abolished, i. 158
Ghosts, belief in, ii. 95
Ginseng, an imperial monopoly, ii, 361 Glauber's salt, ancient knowledge of, ii, 243 Gongs, ii, 196
Government, character of, i. 249; ex- penses of, ii. 358
Hong merchants, intrigues of, i. 46; debts to Europeans recovered, 56; failure of two, 96; their value to the government, ii. 381; answerable for foreigners, 384
Hongkong ceded by treaty, i. 158 Honours to just magistrates, i. 393 Hoo-kuang, province of, i. 200
Governor-General's despatch to Canton, Houses of rich described, i. 398
Grain-junks on canal, vast number of, ii. 358
Grammar of language very limited, ii. 110
Granite islands about Canton, ii. 314 Grapes, mode of cultivating, ii. 305 Gratitude, instance of, i. 298 Great Wall described, i. 191 Gunner, unhappy case of, i. 57 Gunpowder, early knowledge of its com- position, ii. 181; not at first applied to gunnery, ibid.
Gutzlaff, Mr., his account of Chinese Budhism, ii. 50; of a Budhist mo- nastery, 66
Gypsum, or alabaster, abundance of, ii. 312; used in colouring spurious
Haenan, island of, i. 210 Hân, dynasty of, i. 224
Handmaids are domestic slaves, i. 325 Heir in Old Age, a play, analysis of, ii. 147
Hell of Budhists, ii. 61
Herbert, Sir T., defeats Chinese force, i. 149
Hereditary rank of imperial kindred, i. 316; of the descendants of Con- fucius, 320 Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, unlike Chinese characters, i. 310, ii. 102 Histories, voluminous, ii. 127 Homicide, law of, i. 290
Ink, called Indian, how made, ii. 180 Innate moral sense, creed of the Chinese, ii. 29
Insects, ii. 291; producing wax, 292 Instruments of music, ii, 217 Interest of money, high rate of, ii. 375; causes of this, 376 Internal trade, ii. 378
Inundation at Canton, i. 467; country subject to, ii. 309
Irrigation of lands, machines for, ii. 258; simple mode, 334 Itinerary, Chinese, i. 411
Kang-hy, a great monarch, i. 22; Laplace, Captain, his description of a
reigned sixty years, 239
Kao-lin, what substance, ii. 205
Kea-king, reign of, i. 241; his will, 243
Keang-nan, province of, i. 195
Keang-sy, province of, i. 197
Chinese dinner, i. 363
Laurus camphora, a timber tree, ii 296
Law, Chinese, contrasted with Japanese, i. 294
Letters rank above arms, i. 271
Keshen, imperial commissioner, i. 148; Lin, commissioner, arrival and conduct
at Canton, i. 133; demands surrender of opium, 135 Linguists, ii. 384
Linois, Admiral, repulsed by Com- pany's fleet, i. 67
Lintin, smuggling traffic at, i. 105;
Literary habits, ii. 115
Literature, classification of, ii. 117 Locusts, ravages of, ii. 325 Lolos, the, i. 208
London, Chinese poem on, ii, 160 Loo-choo tributary to China, i. 212
Koshinga, his expulsion of the Dutch Luck, ii. 99 from Formosa, i. 27-31
Ko-tow, or prostration, impolicy of per- forming, i. 81; consequences to the Dutch of performing it, ibid.; real import of, 86
Kuân-yin, idol of Chinese Budhists, ii. 64
Kuâng-sy, province of, i. 200
Kuâng-tung, or Canton province, i. 197 Kuei-chow, province of, i. 200
Lun-yu, conversations of Confucius,
Macao, condition of, i. 18; expeditions to, 65, 73
Macartney, Earl, mission of, i. 60
Kwan, Chinese admiral, defeat of, i. Machinery of government, i. 263
Magic, practice of, ii. 73
« ZurückWeiter » |