Nautical Almanack, a valuable present to the missionaries in Pekin, [112]
Nelumbium, or water lilly, [473]
New-year's-day, the only holiday in China, [155]
Noah, supposed by the Jesuits to have travelled into China, [433]
ark of, where it probably rested, [432]
O
Oar song of the Chinese, [81]
Oath, form of, among the Chinese and Sumatrans, [52]
never administered in a Chinese court of law, [ib.]
Objects that occur in China, [4]
Occurrences in the Yellow Sea, [25]
Office obtained only by learning, [386]
of government, civil, [404]
military, [406]