CHAPTER VII.

The Dead Sister’s Plate and Chopsticks--Tremendous Feat--A Chinese Theatre--Poor Stuff--The Mail--Excitement--The Rush for Jondy--Do your Duty, come what may--One Piecey English Thief--Nigpoo Tom--Brawling Boatmen--Baby Boatmen--Buoys for Baby-boys--Pastimes--A Cruise for Health--Lucong--Picturesque Scenery--Forget-me-not--Hospitable Cottagers--Their Dinner--Libations of Samshu--Seamen’s Distraction--Lucong Farmers--Thrashing Machine--The Joss-house--A Surprise--More Hospitality--A Dinner in Public--Number One Piecey--A Party for the _Inflexible_--Help for _Laplace_--Ingenious Steering Contrivance--Towing a Cripple 107