Chapter XV: Shanghai

A stroll through the old Chinese quarter.--Book-stalls.--Public
Baths.--Chinese Pawnbrokers.--Foundling hospital.--The Hall of
Universal Benevolence.--Sacrificial Hall of Medical Faculty.--
City prison.--Temple of the Goddess of the Sea.--Chinese
taverns.--Tea-garden.--Temple of Buddha.--Temple of Confucius.--
Taouist convent.--Chinese nuns.--An apothecary's store, and what
is sold therein.--Public schools.--Christian places of worship.--
Native industry.--Cenotaphs to the memory of beneficent
females.--A Chinese patrician family.--The villas of the foreign
merchants.--Activity of the London Missionary Society.--Dr.
Hobson.--Chinese medical works.--Leprosy.--The American
Missionary Society.--Dr. Bridgman.--Main-tze tribe.--Mission
schools for Chinese boys and girls.--The North China branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society.--Meeting in honour of the Members of
the _Novara_ Expedition.--Mons. de Montigny.--Baron Gros.--
Interview with the Tau-Tai, or chief Chinese official of the
city.--The Jesuit mission at Sikkawei.--The Pagoda of Long-Sah.--
A Chinese dinner.--Serenade by the German singing-club.--The
Germans in China.--Influence of the Treaties of Tien-Tsin and
Pekin upon commerce.--Silk.--Tea.--The Chinese sugar-cane.--
Various species of Bamboos employed in the manufacture of
paper.--The varnish tree.--The tallow tree.--The wax-tree.--
Mosquito tobacco.--Articles of import.--Opium.--The Tai-ping
rebels.--Departure from Shanghai.--A typhoon in the China sea.--
Sight the island of Puynipet in the Caroline Archipelago. 416