A Sailor-Boy's Log-Book from Portsmouth to the Peiho by Walter White

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.

Another observance relative to the dead I also had the fortune to witness. I had eaten a dinner in a Chinaman's house, and afterwards sat on one side and witnessed the proceedings of my host, whose chief fare was rice. While watching, I remarked a plate of food, with chopsticks, set apart from the rest by a vacant seat. I asked for an explanation, and was informed that their dead sister would come and eat her chow-chow by-and-by; but if, as it generally happens, the spirit didn't come, perhaps having something better on its own table, the untouched food would be thrown reverently away.