Chapter VI

First Visit to Ning-po.--The Bridge of Boats.--City and Pagoda.--Medical Missionary.--Temperature--Chinese Mode of keeping themselves warm.--Charcoal Stoves.--My Lodgings.--Chinese Gamblers.--Description of Shops.--Silks and Embroidery.--Jade Stone.--Cotton Printing.--Rope making.--Curiosity Shops and Contents--"Furniture Street" and Furniture.--Banking Establishment.--No prospect of Foreign Trade.--Temples, and Devotion of some of the People.--Dwarfed Trees.--Mode of Dwarfing explained.--Mandarins' Gardens visited and described.--View from Northern Hills.--Agriculture.--Native Flora of these Hills.--Graves of the dead.--Collins exposed.