at the openings in the sides, with older heads of men and no less curiously inspecting women, gazing from these water-castles and their homes-sometimes indulging in the shout agreeable to themselves, " Fanqui, Fanqui," to attract the attention of the absent of their family to look with themselves at the "foreign devils." And now, one is almost indignant at the tone of humorous salutation and sometimes derision with which the stranger is greeted, who, however, quite as much pleased with himself in the contrast before him, soon indulges in the better taste, and smiles as he contemplates the scene, the curious scene that now lies around him.

Having reached a point of the stream nearly opposite the foreign factories, the Sylph let go her anchor. Small boats were immediately alongside, eager to take us to the shore; and in a few moments more, with my trunks, I was dodging from one line of junks to another, in a tankaboat propelled by two Chinese women, now with oars, now with long bamboo poles, now with the hands, as they seized the sides of a line of anchored vessels riding in the stream, until, ere long, we reached the point of land in the neighborhood of the American hong.

No one is more pleased than a Chinese with silver coin; none, the Chinese think, understand the value of a dollar less than a Fanqui: hence they charge a foreigner more than ten times the amount they would presume to ask for doing the same thing for one of their fellow celestials. But a visiter at Canton, at these times, values his time more than money; and at a trifling expense for the amusement I experienced by the scenes occurring before me, I found myself at the door of the American hong, occupied by Messrs. Oliphant, King & Co., and Dr. Parker. My inquiry for the latter gentleman soon brought me a most cordial welcome to Canton, from Dr. Parker, in person.

SECTION V.

CANTON.

Dr. Parker. Bible of J. Brainerd Taylor. Residence at the American Hong. Imprisonment of the foreigners. A stroll with Dr. Parker. Chinese Temples. The dying beggars. Call on a wealthy Chinese. His grounds. Dr. Parker no cash doctor. Ophthalmic Hospital. Gases. The opinion of the Chinese of Dr. Parker. Temple of Longevity. Ce. lebrated Budhist. Temple at Hanan. Sacred hogs. City of Canton. Literary examinations. Poetry. The Chinese Language. Walk around the city wall, and entrance into the city through a breach in the walls. Variety. Teas. Leaving Canton.

WHILE at Macao I had heard from Dr. Parker, that he believed he had seen me in America; and an indistinct impression was on my own mind that I had heard my friends mention his name, as an acquaintance of theirs. The familiar and cordial reception which Dr. Parker had given me led to the expression of this idea. "Yes," Dr. P. replied, with his agreeable smile, as he turned to the bookcase behind him and took from it a small moroccocovered Bible; "yes; and do you recognise this? It was given me by your sister, Mrs. K. T., at the moment of my leaving New York." It was a melancholy recognition; but at such a moment, and under such circumstances, and in such hands, it was a grateful pleasure to see the pocket Bible of my lamented brother, JAMES BRAINERD TAYLOR, whose story has been told for his devotion and love of the Scriptures, and over which identical little volume I had seen him, for hours, and daily, in absorbed and delightful study. With such an incident occurring, we could not long be strangers. I was soon afterwards introduced to Mr. Morse, of the house of Messrs. O., K. & Co., at whose table, with Dr. Parker, I am to be entertained during my stay in Canton.

THE HONGS FOR THE FOREIGNERS.

The American hong is an extensive building, three stories high, fronting the grounds on the river, and extend

ing back for some three or four hundred feet, with an open passage-way, or narrow court, running through its centre from the front to the back walls. The building is divided into three compartments, commencing with number one for the front, number two for the centre, and number three for the rear part of the establishment. Within this range of walls are the store-rooms, and rooms occupied by the comprador coolies, and other servants attached to the hong, comprising the basement stairs or ground-floor, and the second story affording fine drawing-rooms and chambers, both spacious and airy, two requisites for comfort in this climate. The top of the building is crowned by a turret, affording an ample space for a promenade at the edge of evening, for gaining the cool breeze, and from which an extensive view is had of the inwalled city in the rear, and in front, of the river with its thousand boats, either lying in their dense rafts or passing and repassing down and up the stream.

The other hongs, or as they are otherwise called, factories, which are no more nor less than extensive and convenient brick residences and store-houses for the foreigners, according to their several nations, are similar to the American hong, and situated mostly on its left, others on its right. The Chinese hong-merchants, by whom the principal business is transacted with the foreigners, and who legitimately enjoy the monopoly of the foreign trade, also have their factories. They are the body of men, twelve in number, through whom the Chinese government hold communication with foreigners, it being deemed beneath the dignity of the higher orders of the mandarins to hold direct intercourse with "barbarians" of the outer land, or to have any association with the "foreign devils."

It was within these buildings the foreign community were confined during the late troubles; the streets leading from the area, and fronting the factories, were stopped with brick and mortar, and the doors opening upon the street from the rear of the hongs were also closed in the same manner. A semicircular and triple tier of boats were arranged on the river in front of the factories, so as to intercept the passage of the foreigners, should they attempt to make their escape by crossing the river. Thus

were they entirely surrounded, and escape impossible, as long as the government so willed it.

The hongs are apparently deserted now, in comparison to what has been unsual in times of mutual good understanding between the foreigners and the Chinese. All the English have retired, with the Queen's commission, to Macao. The Americans, most of them, had also left the city, and all others of other nations; while some one member or more of each American house remains with the purpose of accepting certain conditions for the continuance of their trade-the English being the party most particularly involved in the present disturbances. The streets leading from the front grounds of the factories are still closed, as they were when the foreigners were prisoners a few days since, with one exception. A strict guard was kept during the imprisonment vile of the foreigners, and many demonstrations still present themselves about the premises, which show, besides the absence of the stir of business, that there has been no small change here, and that high-handed measures have characterized the movements of the ill-informed and self-complacent mandarins; for all which, if I prognosticate not wrongly, a "pay-day" will come which shall bear with it both information and demonstrations of foreign power that will convince these celestials that their inner land of the central kingdom possesses not all the might of all the whole earth; and that there is a right which the favored son of heaven on his imperial throne at Pekin has never dreamed of, and will learn to his once astonishment and cost.

The front windows of the American hong overlook the wide flagging running in front of the factories. From the window of the second story, therefore, in front of the drawing-room, we have a fine view of the passers-by as they come down in streams from old China-street. It is amusing to witness the insuppressible and unbounded. curiosity of these celestials when they find us at the windows. They make a full halt. The boys, who have early been taught to repeat the term "Fanqui," in contempt of the foreigner, gaze, where they are the better bred, gravely, and then pass on; while the more mischie