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
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