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More Grumbling -- Sailing Orders: Hurra! -- 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.
January 1st, 1858. -- My entry in the journal for the day runs thus: "Here we are, still in the river, grumbling at long delay, and wanting to be sent out of it. " Nothing of importance happened, and we filled up our time with ordinary duty and more growling till the 14th of February, when we received orders to go to Shanghai, and all were very glad at the prospect of a change; for my part, I was positively happy in expectation of soon again dancing upon blue water.