Missionaries, attacks on, 40, 180, 248, 260, 261, 262 agency of, in the diffusion of secular knowledge, 263-291 apostles of science, 263 creators of Chinese journalism 290 medical work, 284 lead a vernacular revolution, 290 preparation of text-books, 287 presidents of government colleges, 289 teaching and preaching, 263 Mongolia, the largest division of Tartary, 57, 61 contribution to the luxuries of the metropolis, 50 inhabitants nomadic, 58 has only three towns, 58 Russians "came lean and went away fat," 58 Russians granted privilege of establishing an ecclesiastical mission, 57 Mongols, liable to military service, but prohibited from doing garrison duty in China, 59 dress, 60 forty-eight Mongolian princes, 59 Mongol monks at Peking, 60 nomadic wanderings, 58 princes visit Cambalu (Peking), in winter, 59 their camel, 60 victorious over the Sungs, 130 Yuen or Mongol dynasty, 131-134 Morrison, John R., son of Dr. Morrison the missionary, attempts to establish a printing-press, 283 Morrison, Robert, pioneer of Protestant missions to China, tomb of, at Macao, 9, 282 Moule, Bishop, makes Hang-chow seat of his diocese, 23 Mukden, city of, sacred to every Manchu, 56 battle of, 189 Mu-wang, a Chou ruler, who seeks relief from ennui in foreign travel, 87 [Page 319] Nanking, chief city of Kiangsu province, 25, 26 called _Kiangning_ by the Manchus, 26 pillaged by Tartars, 129 Nanking, treaty of, 7 Nan-peh Chao, "Northern and Southern Kingdoms" four factions arising on the fall of the Tsin dynasty, 116 Napier, Lord, appointed superintendent of British trade in China, 153 arrives at Macao and announces his appointment by letter to the prefect of Canton, who "tosses it back," 153 dies of chagrin at Macao, 153 Napoleon, Louis, and Annam, 165 Navy, the Chinese, 199-200 "Nest-builder, The," 71 Nevius, Rev. J. L., missionary at Hangchow, 23 at Chefoo, where he plants a church and a fruit garden, 32 Nevius, Mrs., at Chefoo, 32 Newspapers, reforms in, 215 covertly criticise Government and its agents, 215 Ningpo, province of Chéhkiang, 19 its handsome people and their literary and commercial prominence, 20 residence of the author for ten years, 20 Ningpo River, 18 Nogi, General, and the Russo-Japanese War, 188-192 O'Connor, Mr., British chargé d'affaires, 179 Omesham Mountains, 51 Opening of China, the, a drama in five acts, 149 result of collisions between Oriental conservatism and Occidental progress, 149, 150 Opium, extent of trade in, 303 20,000 chests destroyed at request of Captain Charles Elliott, 154 Opium traffic, Commissioner Lin directed by Emperor Tao Kwang to abolish it, 152 attitude of British Government, 304 decree ordering its total abolition, 304 regulations of Council of State, 305 Opium War, the, its causes, precipitation, and effects, 150-162 Oyama, Field-marshal, in the Russo-Japanese War, 187-192