Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.

CHAPTER XIV.

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HONG-KONG.

Rapid increase of the colony of Victoria or Hong-kong.-- Disagreeables.--Public character.--The Comprador, or "factotum."--A Chinese fortune-teller.--Curiosity-stalls.--The To-stone.--Pictures on so-called "rice-paper."--Canton English.-- Notices on the Chinese language and mode of writing.-- Manufacture of ink.--Hospitality of German missionaries.--The custom of exposing and murdering female children.--Method of dwarfing the female foot.--Sir John Bowring.--Branch Institute of the Royal Asiatic Society.--An ecclesiastical dignitary on the study of natural sciences.--The Chinese in the East Indies.-- Green indigo or Lu-Kao.--Kind reception by German countrymen.-- Anthropometrical measurements.--Ramble to Little Hong-kong.-- Excursion to Canton on board H.M. gun-boat _Algerine_.--A day at the English head-quarters.--The Treaty of Tien-Tsin.--Visit to the Portuguese settlement of Macao.--Herr von Carlowitz.-- Camoens' Grotto.--Church for Protestants.--Pagoda Makok.--Dr. Kane.--Present position of the colony.--Slave-trade revived under the name of Chinese emigration.--Excursions round Macao.-- The Isthmus.--Chinese graves.--Praya Granite.--A Chinese physician.--Singing stones.--Departure.--Gutzlaff's Island.-- Voyage up the Yang-tse-Kiang.--Wusung.--Arrival at Shanghai. 355