Leave Amoy--Arrive in Macào Roads--Live ashore--Well guarded--Night calls--Ventriloquist at Typa Fort-- Ordered on board--Up to Whampoa--Clipper Ships--Over to Hong-Kong--Coronation day--Independence day-- Hurried on board--The mail--Ty-foongs 154
Ty-foong passed--Pleasant season--Theatrical exhibition --The Macàense--Philharmonic Society--Italian Opera-- Awaiting orders for home--Thoughts of home and friends --Idea suggested by the setting sun--Poetry--Maladie de Pays--Its effects upon the Swiss--A remedy--My own experience, and manner of Cure 161
Haul up all standing--Boat races--Interest in the sport-- Excitement general--Arrangements--Jockeyism--Regatta-- Preparations--The start--The race--The result--Launch and first cutter--Race described con-amore--Suggestion of an old salt--Satan and sailors 166
Effects of the race--Suppers and their effects--The stuff that dreams are made of--A scrape in the Typa--Again at Whampoa 172
Anson's Bay--Hong-Kong again--P. & O. Company's hulk takes fire--Escape of captain's wife--Toong-Koo Bay--Piracy-- Fire at Macào--Wolf again at Whampoa--Amateur theatricals at Canton--Melancholy musings 177
Commodore arrives at last--Preparations for a start--Delay --Washington's Birthday--The clipper Challenge--Prisoners from her--Homeward bound!--Reflections on leaving--Case of small-pox--Second visit to Anger 184
No mosquitoes at Anger--The land of the East--A sketch-- Advantages of Anger--Dolce-far-niente--Island of Java-- Batavia--Bantam--Comparison between Anger and Singapore 189
Pass through Sunda Strait--H. B. M. S. Rattler--Catch the trades--A learned opinion on diaries--Extracts from diary --Isle of France--Its romance--Bourbon--Mauritius--Cape of Good Hope--Description--Trouble in getting in--Table Bay and Mountain 194
Land at Cape Town--Hotels and widows--Drive to Constantia --Description of drive--Price of wine--Manumission of slaves--Seasons at the Cape--The town through a microscope, &c. &c. 200
Settlement of Cape Town--Its productions--The Kaffir war-- Latest dispatches--Cause of the rebellion--Description of the Kaffir by the traveller--Opinion of him by the resident --Authority of prominent men--Observatory, &c. 208
A death on board--Our freight--Extracts from diary--St. Helena and Napoleon--The trades--Poetical idea of a starry telegraph--Good sailing 217