A TYPICAL FARM-HOUSE H. HALL " 177 FISHING-JUNKS IN MACAO HARBOUR AT CHINESE NEW YEAR CARLOS CABRAL " 189 BUDDHIST PRIEST AND ACOLYTE HOLDING BOOK T. CHILD " 228 VOCABULARY =Bund.= The embankment or quay of a concession. =Concession.= A strip of land conceded by China to another Power exclusively for the residences of foreigners. =Camoens.= Portuguese poet who wrote the Luciad at Macao. =Chit.= Any letter or note, also an I.O.U. =Chop chop.= Quickly. Hurry up. =Compradore.= Chinese agent or partner. =Coolie.= Chinese labourer. =Cumshaw.= A tip or present. =European.= In China this word is equally applicable to Americans. =Foreigner.= European or American in China. =Gingall.= Heavy muzzle-loading musket requiring two men to carry and fire it. =Han, Children of.= Chinese. =Kowtow.= To make obeisance by striking the head on the ground. =Lowdah.= Sailing-master. =Mafoo.= Groom. =Native.= Chinese. =Out-port.= Any treaty port except Shanghai, and Hongkong. =Papico.= Junk from Ningpo, shaped aft like a duck. =Pow.= To gallop. =Praia Grande.= Esplanade facing sea. =Pumelo.= A coarse fruit resembling an enormous orange. =Punkah.= Large fan suspended from ceiling for ventilating room. =Ricksha.= Small gig drawn by a coolie, who plies it for hire. =Runner.= Official underling. Police agent. =Sai.= Here I am. A word used by servants combining Sir and _Lai_, to come. =Samli.= A fish resembling salmon. =Sampan.= Small native boat. =Samshu.= Spirit distilled from rice or millet. =Settlement.= Where Europeans have settled on a limited strip of Chinese territory. =Shroff.= Chinese accountant, cashier and banker. =Squeeze.= Recognised cheating. =Sycee Shoes.= Rough lumps of silver cast in shape of China-woman's small shoe or of half-globe. =Tiffin.= Luncheon. =Treaty-port.= Any port opened by treaty to foreign trade. =Waler.= Horse from New South Wales. =Westerner.= European or American. =Yamen.= Official building. =Yulow.= A scull worked over the stern. =Zacousca.= Russian appetiser or snack taken before meals. Life and Sport in China CHAPTER I ANGLO-CHINESE LIFE Anglo-Chinese life is a sealed book to most people at home, who, if they ever think about it at all, do so with minds adversely biassed by ignorance of the conditions, a hazy idea of intense heat, and a remembrance of cruel massacres. "Going to China" always elicits looks and exclamations of astonishment at so rash an undertaking, but which the stock questions as to whether we eat with chopsticks, whether it is not always unbearably hot, and whether we like the Chinese, explain as disquietude arising from the idea of encountering "evils that we know not of."