CHAPTER VI.

More Grumbling--Sailing Orders: Hurrah!--A Trial of Patience--Sail from Hong-Kong for Shanghai--Beating past Formosa--Danger ahead--’Bout Ship--An anxious Moment--The Danger escaped--Woosung--Anchor at Shanghai--The Nobs--Life in the Streets--Coolie Jams--Sedan-bearers’ Salutes--Shops and Shopkeepers--Buddhist Temple--The Worshippers--Ogling and carving--Divination by Sticks--Big Ear and Big Eye--Yankee Rowdies--Broken Heads--Hot Weather--Patience rewarded--A Parcel from Home--An Alarm--Attempt at Murder--Feeders on Christians--You English one Rogue--Fern Tea--Carrion Food--A Rat Scramble--Sea Spawn--Chinese and English Landscapes--Chinese Painters and Pile-drivers--Fourth of July--Dogs and Sailors classed together--A Warning to Old Ugly--Funeral Rites 87