Chapter XIV: Hong-Kong

Rapid increase of the colony of Victoria or Hong-kong.--
Disagreeables.--Public character.--The Comprador, or
"factotum."--A Chinese fortune-teller.--Curiosity-stalls.--The
To-stone.--Pictures on so-called "rice-paper."--Canton English.--
Notices on the Chinese language and mode of writing.--
Manufacture of ink.--Hospitality of German missionaries.--The
custom of exposing and murdering female children.--Method of
dwarfing the female foot.--Sir John Bowring.--Branch Institute
of the Royal Asiatic Society.--An ecclesiastical dignitary on
the study of natural sciences.--The Chinese in the East Indies.--
Green indigo or Lu-Kao.--Kind reception by German countrymen.--
Anthropometrical measurements.--Ramble to Little Hong-kong.--
Excursion to Canton on board H.M. gun-boat _Algerine_.--A day at
the English head-quarters.--The Treaty of Tien-Tsin.--Visit to
the Portuguese settlement of Macao.--Herr von Carlowitz.--
Camoens' Grotto.--Church for Protestants.--Pagoda Makok.--Dr.
Kane.--Present position of the colony.--Slave-trade revived
under the name of Chinese emigration.--Excursions round Macao.--
The Isthmus.--Chinese graves.--Praya Granite.--A Chinese
physician.--Singing stones.--Departure.--Gutzlaff's Island.--
Voyage up the Yang-tse-Kiang.--Wusung.--Arrival at Shanghai. 355