| 1. | A capital. | Chieh. |
| 2. | Far. | T’o. |
| 3. | Near. | Ngeh. |
| 4. | South. | Nan. |
| 5. | North. | Pei. |
| 6. | Road. | Keh. |
| 7. | Straight. | Tei. |
| 8. | Winding. | Koh. |
| 9. | River. | Tiang. |
| 10. | Sea. | Hai. |
| 11. | Side. | Pau. |
| 12. | Deep. | To. |
| 13. | Shallow. | Nieh. |
| 14. | Boat. | Niang. |
| 15. | Guest. | K’a. |
| 16. | Inn. | P’au. |
| 17. | Innkeeper; Landlord. | Kuei p’au. |
| 18. | To reckon. | Ngieh. |
| 19. | To receive. | Hshou. |
| 20. | Trouble. | Goh. |
| 21. | Bitterness. | I. |
| 22. | To join. | ‘Ha. |
| 23. | A province. | Sai. |
| 24. | To live at. | Ai. |
WORDS COMBINED.
1.—To go to the capital. It will do to go straight or go round.
2.—In reckoning distance, the straight road is the shortest.
3.—The south. The north. 4.—A ship.
5.—To be on board a ship. To cross a river. To go by sea. The water is deep. The water is shallow. 6.—An inn. The innkeeper. 7.—Trouble. Sorrow. To be in trouble. To be resting.
8.—When you went to the capital last year, where did you live? At an inn. I have heard it said that the inns outside the city are some of them not very good to stay at. That is all as the innkeeper is a good or a bad one. In my opinion, when one is tired, any inn is good. All you go to it for is to rest yourself.
9.—When you go travelling, do you prefer a cart or a ship? That all depends upon the country. There are no carts in the south, and travellers all go by water. The vessels used in river-travelling are small. Sea-going vessels are larger.
10.—The water in rivers is shallow, not so deep as in the sea.
11.—In the voyage you made by sea the year before last, you had a hard time of it, hadn’t you? I had. It blew hard, and the ship got ashore on the coast of Shan-tung. All of us who were on board suffered dreadfully.