Factories, the, at Canton, 150,152 Favier, Bishop, defends his people in the French Cathedral, Peking, 176 Fishing, queer methods of, 19 Five dynasties, the, factions contending for the succession on the fall of the house of T'ang, 126 the later Liang, T'ang, Ts'in, Han, and Chou are united after fifty-three years in the Sung dynasty, 126-127 Foochow (Fuchau), on the River Min, 15 fine wall and "bridge of ten thousand years," 16 Kushan, its sacred mountain, 15 Manchu colony, 16 [Page 313] Formosa, Island of, colonised by people of Fukien, 14 France takes lease of Kwang-chou-wan, 174 France, war with, 169 allowed to retain Tong-king, 170 French seize Formosa, 170 Fraser, Consul, and Viceroy Chang in the Boxer War, 227 Fuchau (Foochow), province of Fukien, 15 large and prosperous missions in, 16 Fuhi, mythical ruler, teaches his people to rear domestic animals, 72 Fukien (Fuhkien), province of, 14-16 derivation of name, 15 dialect, 14 inhabitants bold navigators, 14 Fungshui, a false science, 202 Fungtao, inventor of printing, 116 Gabet and Huc, French missionaries, reach Lhasa in Tibet, 63 Gama, da, voyage to India, 136 Gaselee, General, and his contingent relieve the British Legation, Peking, 177 Genghis Khan, splendour of his court eclipsed by that of his grandson, Kublai Khan, 131 Gods, the numerous, of the Chinese, 82 worship of many of them referred to the Shang dynasty, 82 Gordon, General, victorious over the Tai-pings, 161 Grand Canal, journey down from Tsi-ning, 31 as useful to-day as six hundred years ago, 31 constructed by Kublai Khan, 31-32 its object, 32 Grand Lama, the Buddhist pope, 62, 109 Great Wall, the, origin of, 4 an effete relic, 31 built by Ts'in, 101 its construction overthrows house of its builder, 32 Gunpowder, early known to the Chinese, but not used with cannon, 115 spoken of by Arabs as "Chinese snow," 115