Settlement. Where Europeans have settled on a limited strip of Chinese territory.
Shroff. Chinese accountant, cashier and banker.
Squeeze. Recognised cheating.
Sycee Shoes. Rough lumps of silver cast in shape of China-woman's small shoe or of half-globe.
Tiffin. Luncheon.
Treaty-port. Any port opened by treaty to foreign trade.
Waler. Horse from New South Wales.
Westerner. European or American.
Yamên. Official building.
Yulow. A scull worked over the stern.