CHAPTER XIV.

A few Words to Boys who want to go to Sea--Characteristics--Talk about Books--Swallowing a Johnson--Sneaking from Church--Seamen’s Prayer--Disreputable Officers--The Servants not the Service--Man the Ropes--The Lieutenant’s Dog--Craft on the Creeks--The Tax-boat--Canoes and Capers--Rambles in Canton--Deities for Sale--False Tails--Street Gamblers--A Sing-song--The Temple of Five Hundred Gods--The City Wall and Scenes beheld therefrom--French Headquarters--Yeh’s Park--A threatened Flogging--Our Chaplain 209