The flight of the Lapwing : a naval officer's jottings in China, Formosa and Japan

A naval officer's jottings in China, Formosa and Japan

1881

Contents
I. Hong-Kong - Floating population - Visit to Canton - Examination hall - Prisons - 'China New Year' p.1
II. Search for a pirate - Formosa - Aborigines - Takow - A strange visitor p.31
III. City of Amoy - Emigration - Official calls - Lessons in etiquette p.42
IV. Buddhist temples - Potted ancestors - Naval worthies - Paper flowers - A naval pageant p.52
V. Municipal lamps - Inquests -'Fung-Shuy'- Manufactures - Schools - Education - Marriages - Foot-binding - Doctors - Infanticide - Rock inscriptions - Forts - Soldiers - Ostriculture p.63
VI. The river Min - Timber ships - Boat women - Foochow - Bridge of ten thousand ages p.87
VII. A Chinese arsenal - Educational department - Condition of the navy - Unpreparedness for war p.96
VIII. Keelung - Walk to the coal region - The mines - Rival pilots - Tamsui - An enlightened official - Exports p.109
IX. Missionary work in north Formosa - System of training student - Remarkable results - Future of Christianity - Persecution - Land system p.118
X. The foreign drilled battalion - Incidents en route - Inspection manoeuvres - Characteristics - The month of May - Cushan monastery p.132
XI. Establishment of missions at Foochow - Difficulties - Character of the people - Wu-Shih-Shan - Training institutions - Impending troubles - A lady physician - Medical work p.153
XII. Visit to the interior of Formosa - Reception by the natives - The tea trade - Chinese geography - Character of the students - Sintiam - Evening service - Meeting with the savages - Return to Twa-Tua-Tia - A literary town - Journey to Keelung p.171
XIII. Arrival of English miners - Return to Foochow - Tea trade - Heavy floods - Measures to alleviate distress - Governor Ting - Religious persecution - Defences of the river Min - Farewell to Formosa - Chefoo conference p.207
XIV. The naval school - Character of the students - Memorial to Mr. Carroll - The 'Yang-Woo' - A Chinese admiral - Captains of gunboats - Maintenance of the arsenal - School of telegraphy - Obstacles to railways and telegraphs p.226
XV. Ordered to Tientsin - The 'Lapwing' lights on the island of Chang-Shan - We find it necessary to lighten the ship - Strange quarters - Construction of a breakwater - After several attempts to float the ship we succeed and return to Shanghai p.241
XVI. The 'Lapwing' takes another flight - The Peiho Forts - Climate of Tientsin - Amusements - Start for Peking - Chinese inns - Aspect of the country - First impressions of Peking - Arrival at the legation p.269
XVII. Peking - Public works - Tartar city - The palace - Temple of heaven - Form of worship - Temples of agriculture and learning - Observatory - China maniacs - The Great wall - Ming tombs - The summer palace - Return to Tientsin p.283
XVIII. Tientsin - Small-pox - A series of disasters - Locusts - Market gardening - Variety of produce - Inferiority of the fruit - Archery - Vaccination - Manners and customs - River scene - Junk architecture - The city - Oxford street - Occupation by the allied troops - Results p.304
XIX. A religious festival - Acts of self-inflicted torture - Fetish-worship - Popular superstitions - Our lady of the small-pox - Gunter - Li-Hung-chang - Torpedo school - War preparations - The fathers of the people p.327
XX. An alarm of fire - Organisation of fire guilds - Methods of procedure - Compensation - Political excitement - The Tientsin massacre : its origin - Contemplated massacre of all foreigners - Official responsibility p.349
XXI. Visit to a Mohammedan Mosque - A religious disputation - Mohammedan service - Their rites and ceremonies - Preservation of the faith - Their sacred books - Education - Holding official rank - Election for priesthood - Organisation and maintenance of the church p.359
XXII. Tientsin as a missionary centre - The L. M. S. dispensary - Attitude of the officials - Cases of persecution - Encouraging results of mission-work - Importance of training up a native clergy - M. N. C. institution - Instruction in English - Roman Catholic missions p.375
XXIII. The 'China merchants' company': its management - Railway enterprise at Tientsin - The Woosung line - Beneficial results of railways in China - The development of the country - Mr. Burlingham's speech at New York on the future of China p.390
XXIV. New-Chwang - The eastern end of the Great Wall - Ordered to Nagasaki - Its beauties - Chinese colony - Trade and manufactures - Sintooism and Buddhism - Changing skin - The Government and Christianity - Return to Hong-Kong p.413
XXV. Christianity in China - Popular notions concerning missionaries - Want of sympathy, and hostility to the cause - The reality of their work and claims for support p.434
XXVI. A visit to Siam p.467
Appendix
I. Chinese official system - Theoretical and practical p.499
II. Chinese gunboats p.503
III. Newspapers published in China p.508
IV. Famine horrors at Tientsin p.509
V. Public granaries in China p.512
VI. Progress in Japan p.515
VII. Religious toleration in Japan p.519
VIII. Some results of famine relief in China p.524
IX. Address by Dr. Brown on results of education p.530
X. A high-class Chinese dinner p.545
XI. Notes on the steps taken to get H.M.S. 'Lapwing' off the island of Chang-Shan, gulf of Pechili, after having been stranded from November 10 to December 4, 1876 p.546

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