Any treaty port except Shanghai, and Hongkong.

=Papico.= Junk from Ningpo, shaped aft like a duck.

=Pow.= To gallop.

=Praia Grande.= Esplanade facing sea.

=Pumelo.= A coarse fruit resembling an enormous orange.

=Punkah.= Large fan suspended from ceiling for ventilating
room.

=Ricksha.= Small gig drawn by a coolie, who plies it for hire.

=Runner.= Official underling. Police agent.

=Sai.= Here I am. A word used by servants combining Sir and
_Lai_, to come.

=Samli.= A fish resembling salmon.

=Sampan.= Small native boat.

=Samshu.= Spirit distilled from rice or millet.

=Settlement.= Where Europeans have settled on a limited strip of
Chinese territory.

=Shroff.= Chinese accountant, cashier and banker.

=Squeeze.= Recognised cheating.

=Sycee Shoes.= Rough lumps of silver cast in shape of
China-woman's small shoe or of half-globe.

=Tiffin.= Luncheon.

=Treaty-port.= Any port opened by treaty to foreign trade.

=Waler.= Horse from New South Wales.

=Westerner.= European or American.

=Yamen.= Official building.

=Yulow.= A scull worked over the stern.

=Zacousca.= Russian appetiser or snack taken before meals.

Life and Sport in China

CHAPTER I

ANGLO-CHINESE LIFE

Anglo-Chinese life is a sealed book to most people at home, who, if
they ever think about it at all, do so with minds adversely biassed by
ignorance of the conditions, a hazy idea of intense heat, and a
remembrance of cruel massacres.

"Going to China" always elicits looks and exclamations of astonishment
at so rash an undertaking, but which the stock questions as to whether
we eat with chopsticks, whether it is not always unbearably hot, and
whether we like the Chinese, explain as disquietude arising from the
idea of encountering "evils that we know not of."

Our early business relations with the Chinese were conducted at
Canton, to which port opium in particular was shipped direct from
India, but owing to the hostility of Chinese officials towards British
merchants and the legitimate expansion of their trade, quarrels were
frequent, culminating in the so-called Opium War of 1840-42, resulting
in the acquisition by us of the small, barren island of Hongkong, and
the opening to foreign trade of five ports, including Canton and
Shanghai, at all of which small plots of land some half a mile square
were set apart for the exclusive reside