Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

by W. H. Davenport Adams

[28] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," pp. 46, 47.

[29] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," p. 90.

[30] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," pp. 110, 122.

[31] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," pp. 129, 130.

[32] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," pp. 227, 228.

[33] Lady Brassey: "Voyage of the Sunbeam," pp. 256-262.

[34] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," pp. 268-272.

[35] Lady Brassey: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam," pp. 309-312. With this Japanese bill of fare we may contrast a Chinese bill of fare which Lady Brassey preserves:—

Four courses of small bowls, one to each guest, viz.—Bird's-nest Soup, Pigeon's Eggs, Ice Fungus (said to grow on ice), Shark's Fins (chopped).

Eight large bowls, viz.—Stewed Shark's Fins, Fine Shell Fish, Mandarin Bird's Nest, Canton Fish Maw, Fish Brain, Meat Balls with Rock Fungus, Pigeons stewed with Wai Shau (a strengthening herb), Stewed Mushroom.