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. CONTEMTt. V FAOE CHAP. V. — The Yang-tsze-keang River — Shang-hae — Torts — Army and Navy — Tsung-roing — Betum to Shang-hae — Lew-kimg-taou 256 CHAP. VI. — Corea — General Sketch ■— First Meeting with Natives — Their Barbarism — Gan-keang — Fur- ther Intercourse with Natives — Books and Presents to the Kinfjr — Mandarins from the Court — Refusal of Permission to Trade — Ouelpoert 316 CHAP. VII. — Loo-choo — Napa-keang — Mandarins-^ Language — Japanese Junk — Distribution of Books — Reverence for the Dead — Loo-choo Physician — Man- ners of the People — Return to Macao 357 RELIGIONS OF CHINA. Patriarchal Religion — Confucius -^ Taouism — Budhism — Grand Lama — Festivals — Worship of the Dead — Condition of the Females — General Apathy — Misre- presentations of certain Writers — Jews — Mohamme- dans 370 CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA. Nestorians — Mongul Conquests — Catholic Missions — Jesuits — Xavier — Ricci — Female Proselytes — Quar- rels between the Catholic Orders — Schaal — Tartar Conquests — Verbiest — Disputes between Jesuits and Dominicans — Death of Kang-he — Persecutions by succeeding Emperors — Taou-kwang — Protestant Missions 389