Mythical Monsters

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mythical Monsters, by Charles Gould

THE FUNG WANG. ACCORDING TO FANG HENG.
MYTHICAL MONSTERS.
BY CHARLES GOULD, B.A., MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA; LATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYOR OF TASMANIA.
WITH NINETY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON: W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE. S.W. PUBLISHERS TO THE INDIA OFFICE. 1886. ( All rights reserved. )
LONDON: PRINTED BY W H ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL S.W.
The Author has to express his great obligations to many gentlemen who have assisted him in the preparation of this volume, either by affording access to their libraries, or by furnishing or revising translations from the Chinese, &c.; and he must especially tender them to J. Haas, Esq., the Austro-Hungarian Vice-Consul at Shanghai, to Mr. Thomas Kingsmill and the Rev. W. Holt of Shanghai, to Mr. Falconer of Hong-Kong, and to Dr. N. B. Dennys of Singapore.
For the sake of uniformity, the author has endeavoured to reduce all the romanised representations of Chinese sounds to the system adopted by S. W. Williams, whose invaluable dictionary is the most available one for students. No alteration, however, has been made when quotations from eminent sinologues like Legge have been inserted.
Should the present volume prove sufficiently interesting to attract readers, a second one will be issued at a future date, in continuation of the subject.
June, 1884.