French Army, 42; intimacy between French and German soldiers in Tientsin, 40; Infanterie Coloniale, 42; infantry, 43; officers, 43; method of maintaining discipline, 43; training and organisation, 44; Zouaves and Chasseurs d’Afrique, 43 French colonial party, suspected designs on Macao, 233; on Canton, 275 French post‐office in Canton, 276 Frontier Field Force, 208 Frontier of the Kowloon Hinterland, 196 Fusiliers, Royal Welch, attack on a patrol, 23; in the Hinterland, 198; Hong Kong garrison, 200 Garrison of Hong Kong, 199; of Macao, 241 Gascoigne, Major‐General Sir W., 199 Gaselee, General Sir A., K.C.B., 204 German Army, 34; adherence to close formations and antiquated tactics, 35; campaigning dress in China, 39; failure of transport, 39; soldiers, 40; their friendship with the French, 40; officers of, 37 German Club at Tientsin, 22 German Imperial Navy, 40; mercantile marine, 40 Gordon Hall, Tientsin, 22, 28 Gough, Sir Hugh, attacks Canton, 258 Government of Macao, 241 Governor of Macao, 244 Grant‐Smith, Mr. Ivan, 245, 252 Gray, Captain, 4th P.I., 167 Green Island, 173 Gunboats, allied, at Taku, 9, 10; at Canton, 274; British fired at, 276 Gurkhas, friendship with Japanese, 50, 166; ingratitude of foreign troops sheltered by them, 166; officers at Shanhaikwan, 138 Hall, Examination at, Canton, 273 Hall of Five Hundred Genii, 269 Hall of Ten Thousand Ages, 123 Happy Valley, 179 Hardy, Rev. Mr., 1 Harem, Emperor’s, in Pekin, 90 Ha‐ta‐man Street, 102; Gate, 77 Hatherell, Captain, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 208, 229 Heaven, Temple of, 67 _Heungshan_, S.S., 235 Heung Shan, Island of, 233 Hinterland, Kowloon, 194; character and description of, 195; projected railway through, 196; cession, 196; advantages to Hong Kong, 198; column guarding it, 202; want of maps of, 216; British police in, 198 Honam, Cantonese suburb of, 260, 263 Hong Kong, importance as a naval and military base, 167; harbour, 184; menace of famine, 170; commercial importance, 171; geography, 172; description, 174–184; Club, 177; climate, 184; society in, 190; value of dollar, 235 Hong Kong Regiment, bravery at Tientsin, 15; barracks, 187; disbanded, 187 Hong Kong, Canton to Macao Steamboat Co., 234 Hong Kong and Singapore Artillery, 199 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, ruins in Pekin, 71; building in Hong Kong, 176 Hong Kong Volunteers, 188, 199 Horrors, Temple of, 272 Hôtel du Nord, Pekin, 71 Hsi‐ku Arsenal, 30 Hsin‐ho, British landing‐place at, 10 Hutchinson, Lieut., R.N.R., 25, 135 Imperial apartments, 91 Imperial Maritime Customs, Chinese, gunboat, 210; officers, 217; station at Samchun, 212 Imperial troops, Chinese, 24, 296