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.