Yeh Ming Hsin, Viceroy, drastic measures to suppress rebellion in Kwang Tung province, 53; appointed viceroy (_1854_), 55; capture and banishment, 56. Yeh Shu Tung, teacher for Chinese Educational Commission, 183; coolie question in Cuba, 197, 206; appointed secretary to Chinese Legation, 198. Yellow River, Inundation of, 75. Ying Wong, Chin’s opinion of, 104. Young, John R., protest against breaking up of Chinese Educational Commission, 211. Yuh-Shan, city, 83, 86. Yung Wing, birth (_1828_), 1; early school life, 2; death of father (_1840_), 8; helps toward family income, 8; works in rice fields, 9; printing office, 11; hospital, 11; enters Morrison school (_1841_), 13; departure for U. S. (_1847_), 18, 21; benefactors, 19, 36; incidents of voyage, 22; arrival in New York, 23; Chinese Education scheme, 23; enters Monson Academy, 27; studies during first year, 28; placed under care of Mrs. Phœbe H. Brown, 29; literary taste influenced by Dr. Charles Hammond, 31; decision to pursue further course of study referred to patrons in Hong Kong, 31; refuses Edinburgh offer, 32; graduates from Monson Academy, 32; enters Yale, 33, 37; problem of support, 34; applies for assistance from contingent fund, 34; grounds for refusal, 35; inadequate preparation and hard work, 37; prizes, 38; stewardship, 38; assistant librarian of “Brothers in Unity,” 39; first Chinaman to graduate from American college, 18, 39, 49; popularity, 40; determination to carry Western education into China, 41; abandons scientific course and returns to China, 42; story of voyage (_1854-’55_), 43; meeting with his mother, 48; college degree, 50; mother’s death (_1858_), 51; residence in Canton, regaining the language, 52; revolting consequences of Kwang Tung rebellion, 53; sympathies stirred, 56; private secretary to Dr. Peter Parker, 59; interpreter in Hong Kong Supreme Court, 59; studies law, 59; apprentice to attorney, 60; opposition of British colony, 60; resignation, 62; passage from Shanghai to Hong Kong in ship _Florence_, 62; position in Imperial Customs, 63; system of graft leading to resignation, 63; mercantile life, 67; night encounter with men from ship _Eureka_, 67; and other personal insults, 70; reputation as translator, 74; draws up petition for relief of sufferers in Yellow River inundation, 75; introduced to Li Jen Shu, 76; ground for declining position as comprador, 77; packing tea, 78; goes to Hangchau, 80; ascends Tsientang River, 82, 85; takes trip to hunt after yellow silk, 88; return to Nih Kia Shi, 90; learns process of preparing tea for foreign market, 91; first journey in interior of China, 93; silk business, 94; with missionaries to Nanking (_1859_), 96; experiences _en route_, 98; arrival at Tan Yang and conversation with Commandant, 101; courteous treatment, 105; gates of Ku Yung closed against them, 106;