I think that the Lascars' custom of eating with their hands, in some measure caused the Chinese to treat them with more severity, than they did the Europeans. In lifting the rice to their mouths they generally spilt a little, and there was always some left on the floor after meals; this seemed to shock the Chinese excessively, and the jailer told us "that lightning would fall from heaven, and destroy those who wasted God's bounties." THE END. LONDON: G. J. PALMER, PRINTER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. JUST PUBLISHED BY W. H. DALTON, COCKSPUR STREET, CHARING CROSS. I. THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER. By the Author of "The Life Book of a Labourer," fcap, 7_s._ cloth. II. CONFORMITY; a TALE. By CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. Foolscap, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth. III. MEMOIR AND REMAINS OF THE REV. CORNELIUS NEALE, M. A. Collected and Edited by the Rev. WILLIAM JOWETT, M.A. Third Edition, foolscap, 6_s._ cloth. IV. SERMONS ON THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA, AND OTHER SUBJECTS. By the late Rev. T. W. CARR, M. A., Minister of Southborough, Kent. 12mo. 6_s._ cloth. V. _In the Press_, AN INTRODUCTION TO A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE PSALMS; being an attempt to ascertain the circumstances under, and the date at which each Psalm was composed. By the late JOHN MASON GOOD, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Author of "The Study of Medicine," "New Translation of the Book of Job," &c. &c. 1 vol. 8vo. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite, by John Lee Scott