Portsmouth (N. H.), treaty of, [192]
Portuguese, first ships of the, appear at Canton, [136]
disapprove missions, [137]
obtain a footing at Macao, [137]
secretly oppose Dutch traders, [137]
Postal system, [206]
Pottinger, Sir Henry, moderate conditions imposed by, at close of Opium War, [155], [156]
his action compared with that of Commodore Perry, [156]
Psychology, Chinese, its recognition of three souls, [22]
Punishments, barbarous, abolished, [214]
Putu, the sacred island of, [18]
its monasteries, [18]
prevalence of piracy in adjacent waters, [18]
Railways, King-Ran road completed to Hankow, [39]
first grand trunk road, [39]
good work of Belgian constructors, [39]
influence of, on people and government, [40]
questionable action of American company, [40]
reforms in, [203]
Rankin, Rev. Henry, with the author, the first white man to enter Hang-chow, [22]
Reading-rooms (not libraries, but places for reading) a new institution, [216]