I land at Shanghai--The Celestial who had never heard of Napoleon--Total value of exports and imports to and from Shanghai--What those exports and imports are--The devotion of the Chinese to their native land--The true yellow danger of the future--I am invited to a Chinese dinner at Shanghai--My yellow guests--The ladies find me amusing--Their small feet and difficulty in walking--A wealthy mandarin explains why the feet are mutilated--Sale of girls in China--Position of women discussed--A mandarin accepts a Bible--Our host takes us to a flower-boat--Description of boat--My first attempt at opium-smoking--A Celestial in an opium dream. When I landed on the vast estuary from which rises up the important town of Shanghai, I really could hardly believe I was but forty days' voyage from Marseilles. Our world is no such big one after all, it is true, but how many centuries it has taken to learn much about it! "Did you ever hear of Napoleon?" I one day asked a Celestial, who had a shining glass button on his cap. "Don't know whom you mean," he answered, with a bewildered look, and there is not much doubt that if he had asked me about some great Chinese Emperor, I should have been just as puzzled as he was. All this will, however, ere long be changed, what with steam and electricity, especially with electricity, which puts a girdle round the earth in a very few minutes, fleet messenger that it is of peace, of war, of ruin, and of fortune. When the various races of the earth know each other better, we shall perhaps become more tolerant of each other, more interdependent, so to speak, and that cannot fail to be an advantage for all concerned. When a blow struck in the East is enough to shake the West to its foundations, we shall think twice before we give that blow. The more frequent the intercourse between the various races of the earth, the nearer we shall be, in spite of many a bitter disappointment, to that era of universal peace to which every nation has aspired in vain for so many centuries. [Sidenote: EXPORTS AND IMPORTS]