THE FIRST CONSULAR RESIDENCE AT FOOCHOW 116 BRIDGE OVER RIVER MIN 120 THE SECOND CONSULAR RESIDENCE AT FOOCHOW, 1848 122 BAMBOO BRIDGE AT FOOCHOW 124 COUNTRY WATERWAY NEAR SHANGHAI 126 ENTRANCE TO SZE-KING, NEAR SHANGHAI 136 RUSTIC SCENE NEAR SHANGHAI 156 VILLAGE ON THE CANALS 200 DENT'S VERANDAH, MACAO 294 GEORGE CHINNERY 298 From an oil-painting by himself. SIR FREDERICK BRUCE 348 MR LOCH DEPARTS FROM PEKING FOR ENGLAND WITH CHINESE TREATY 354 MONSEIGNEUR MOUILLI 356 FIRST BRITISH CONSULATE AT KOLENGSOO, 1844 370 MAPS. MAP OF CANTON WATERS 62 YANGTZE AND GRAND CANAL 75 MOUTH OF YANGTZE AND CHUSAN ARCHIPELAGO 132 ROADS AND WATERWAYS BETWEEN PEKING AND TIENTSIN 331 THE ENGLISHMAN IN CHINA. CHAPTER I. THE ARMY SURGEON. I. YOUTH. Birth at Ealing -- Motherless childhood -- Feeble health -- Irregular schooling -- Medical education -- Student days in Paris -- Wax-modelling -- Admission to College of Surgeons -- House Surgeon at Westminster Hospital. Born in the same year as Mr Gladstone, May 1809, John Rutherford Alcock[1] predeceased that statesman by only six months. His birthplace was Ealing, and he died in Westminster, after a residence there in retirement of twenty-seven years. Being a delicate infant, he was baptised in Ealing church when one day old. His childhood was deprived of its sunshine by the loss of his mother, and it does not appear that his father, a medical man of some note, and an artist to boot, was equal to filling the void in the young life. Consequently boyhood had for him none of the halo of a golden age, but was, on the contrary, a grey and cheerless memory, furnishing tests of hardihood rather than those glowing aspirations which generally kindle young ambitions. His early life was passed with relatives in the north of England, and he went to school at Hexham, where he had for companions Sir John Swinburne and Mr Dawson Lambton.