CHINESE BARBER.

Footnotes:

[4] [Appendix.]

[5] The combination oe is pronounced ū (or oo).

[6] The cost of such a "boy" is very small (labour being one thing which is cheap in the island). He is paid from 16 to 18 florins (12 florins = £1) a month; and when travelling it is usual to give him a half-florin a day for food, otherwise the hotel charge for servants, one florin a day, must be paid.


CHAPTER III.
THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIVES.