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The Way in[Frontispiece]
Shanghai from the River[1]
Shanghai Creek, with Drawbridge[3]
Tea-garden in Shanghai Chinese City[7]
Porters waiting for Work[11]
The Bubbling Well[15]
Soochow Creek, Shanghai[18]
Guild Garden at Kiangpei[22]
Pavilion in Country Gentleman's Garden[25]
Street Scene[29]
Wheelbarrow[30]
Bow of Travelling-boat[32]
Entrance to Yangtse Gorges[33]
Trackers[36]
Poling a Boat up a Rapid[43]
In the Niukan Gorge[48]
White Emperor's Temple, looking down the Gorge of the FearsomePool, or Bellows Gorge[49]
New and Glorious Rapid[53]
Tree moved 100 Yards by Landslip that formed New Rapid[54]
Iron Cover of Bottomless Well[55]
At Fengtu[56]
Free School[67]
Poppies and Terraced Rice-fields[71]
Chungking, Commercial Capital of Western China[75]
Dinner Party in the Garden of a Member of the Hanlin College,—WhiteCloth spread in Compliment to Europeans[78]
Morning Toilette[80]
Outside Governor's Residence in Chungking[83]
Country House near Kiukiang[86]
A Chinese Country Club, or Guild Garden[94]
A Hot Day[95]
Market Street outside City[101]
The Oldest Official in the Province of Szechuan[105]
Giving Evidence in a Court of Justice[111]
Chinese Mode of Salutation[123]
Chinese Roman Catholics of Many Generations[135]
Woman's Natural Foot, and another Woman's Feet bound to 6 Inches[138]
Woman's Natural Foot, and another Woman's Feet bound to 4½ Inches[139]
Chinese Roman Catholic Burial-ground[146]
Family of Literati, Leaders in the Anti-footbinding Movement in theWest of China[157]
Bridge near Soochow[163]
Memorial Arch leading to Confucius' Grave[165]
A Country House Party[174]
Foot Shuttlecock[175]
Wedding Procession[185]
New Kweichow, built by Order[193]
Memorial Arch[201]
Shoes to mend[206]
Ichang from the City Wall, Hall of Literature, and Pyramid Hill[212]
Monastery[217]
The 564 Images of Hangchow[221]
Pavilion of the Moon in Grounds of God of War's Temple[225]
Missionary Group at our House-warming[231]
Soochow, with Mission Church[243]
Temple to God of War, Yünyang[246]
Colossal Gilded Buddha[248]
Punch and Judy[255]
Stone Animals at General's Grave. A Peasant seated on one withStraw Hat[259]
Entrance to Fairies' Temple, Chungking[261]
Play at a Dinner Party in a Guildhall[262]
Audience at a Play in a Guildhall[263]
Junk[271]
Captain of Chinese Gunboat[276]
Soldier[278]
Soldier[279]
Gunboat Soldiers[284]
Soldiers[287]
Temple of God of Literature[294]
Map of China, showing Chief Examination Centres[297]
Outside Confucius' Grave[303]
Approach to Confucius' Grave[307]
Fortress of Refuge, Country House, and Memorial Arch[319]
Near Ningpo[331]
Salisburia adiantifolia[335]
Entrance to Monastery[343]
Buddhist Images cut in Cliffs on the River Ya[347]
At Fengtu, Chinese Hades[351]
Begging Priest, once a General[359]
Jack (Long-haired Shantung Terrier)[365]
Sacred Tiger[367]
Great Precipice of Mount Omi[369]
Priest and Pilgrims on Edge of Omi Precipice[373]
Cloud Effects on Mount Omi[377]
Guard-house near the Arsenal[384]
Roof and Roof-end at Chungking[387]
Bridge at Hangchow[389]
Bridge and Causeway on West Lake[395]
Sacred Sai King Mountain[397]
Brick-tea Carriers on the Great Brick-tea Road[403]
Caravanserai at Tachienlu[410]
In a Chungking Guild-house[431]
Packing Tea[435]
Chinese Hydraulic Apparatus[439]
Peking Pug (Short-haired)[447]
Peking Lion-dog (Long-haired)[451]
On a Mountain Road[454]
A Wheelbarrow Stand[456]
Interior of Governor's Official Residence at Hangchow[459]
Farmer and Water Buffaloes[466]
Paper-burning Temples[468]
Approach to Ming Emperors' Tombs, Peking[471]
Tomb over Banjin Lama's Clothes, built after Tibetan Model of Marble.Bell-like Cupola and Upper Ornaments of Gold. Inscriptions inDevanagari Character, Sanscrit, and Chinese[477]
Lotus Pond and Dagoba in Emperor's Garden[483]
Mountain Village, with Sham Beacon Fires to Left, Foochow Sedan-chairin Front[489]
Shan Ch`ing, Prince Ch`ün, and Li Hung-chang[495]
Late Viceroy Tso Tsung-tang[505]
Emperor Kwang-shü, 1875[516]
Prince Kung[523]
The Great Wall[528]
Incense-burner[531]
Country House in Yangtse Gorges[537]
Kiangsi Guild-house in Chungking[540]
Downward-bound Cargo-boat[548]
Bridge at Soochow[549]
Mr. King, Manager of the Chinese Telegraph Company and Founderof High Schools for Girls[554]
Wên Ting-shih, the Reformer, Late Tutor to the Ladies of the ImperialHousehold[563]
Head Eunuch of the Empress-Dowager[574]
Kiaochou, seized by Germany[583]
British and Chinese Flags, June 15th, 1898: Town of Wei-hai-wei inDistance[586]
Ferry at Ichang[597]
Approach to Ming Emperor's Tomb, Nanking[605]

DRY STATEMENTS.
(TO BE CARRIED WITH THE READER, IF POSSIBLE.)

The Chinese Empire is rather larger than Europe.
Being on the eastern side of a great continent, it has the sameextremes of climate as are to be found in the United States.
Fruits, flowers, and crops vary in like manner.
Peking is on about the same parallel as Madrid, Chungking asCairo, Shanghai as Madeira.
The population of China is over385 millions.
That of the British Isles in 1891 not quite38 millions.
That of France in 189638½ millions.
One alone of China's eighteen provinces, Kiangsu,has over39½ millions.
The Russian nation, already extending over one-sixth of the globe,while China only extends over a little more than one-twelfth, musterslittle over 129 millions, and thus has about one-third of the Chinesepopulation, with about twice its territory to stretch itself in.
There is no Poor Law in China. There are no Sundays.
It is considered very unwomanly not to wear trousers, and veryindelicate for a man not to have skirts to his coat; consequently ourEuropean dress is reckoned by Chinese as indecorous.
Chinese begin dinner with dessert or Russian sakouska, and finishwith hot soup instead of hot coffee.
Their cooks are second only to the French; their serving-mensurpass the Germans.
Chinese love children; are ready to work day and night for theirmasters; and if occasion demand, to be beaten in their place, or even,if needs be, to die for them.
In fine, although in all details unlike ourselves, a great race, withsome magnificent qualities.

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SHANGHAI FROM THE RIVER.

PRELUDE.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS.