Chapter I: Front Matter

_Dutch & English portion of the European Factory at Canton._]

WANDERINGS
IN
NEW SOUTH WALES,
BATAVIA, PEDIR COAST, SINGAPORE,
AND CHINA;
BEING
THE JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST
IN THOSE COUNTRIES, DURING 1832, 1833, AND 1834.

BY
GEORGE BENNETT, ESQ. F.L.S.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty.
1834.

LONDON:
IBOTSON AND PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Pedir coast—Treaty with the Acheenese—Anarchy—Syed Hussain’s
claims—Trade in the Areka-nut—Visit to the Village of
Gingham—Negociation for the restoration of a Penang brig—An
amulet—Visit of the Rajahs to the Queen—Gingham—Trade of the
coast 1

CHAPTER II.

Arrive at Singapore, and sail for China—The Lemma Islands—Their
inhabitants—Boats—Hong Kong Islands—Dr. Abel’s visit to the
shore—A pilot’s surprise—Cap, Sing, Moon—Cum, Sing, Moon—Outlaw
ships—Trade in opium—Researches about the hills—Botanica
productions—Macao—Its streets—Vain endeavours to open a
trade with the Chinese ports—The Rev. C. Gutzlaff— Harbour
of Macao—Jealousy of the Chinese government—Fruit Wang, hee
canes—The Casa Garden—Cave of Camoens—Tributary verses to that
poet 16

CHAPTER III.

Museum at Macao—Mr. Beale’s splendid aviary and
gardens—The Paradise bird—Natural history of this splendid
creature—Anecdotes—Superb magpie—Loris—Description of the
aviary 35

CHAPTER IV.

Reeve’s pheasants—Golden pheasants—Silver pheasants—Blue
pigeons—Stabbed-breast pigeons—Widow birds—The horned
Tragopan—The mandarin teal—Conjugal fidelity—Nicobar
pigeons—Peacock pheasants—Pink cockatoo—The Ounderou monkey—A
Pitta—Mr. Beale’s gardens—Rare productions of the vegetable
kingdom—Native drawings—Extortionate custom 55

CHAPTER V.

Leave Macao for Whampoa—Entrance to the Bocca Tigris—Country
about Chuen, pee—Scene at Whampoa—Approach to Canton—The town
and suburbs—The sailor’s coffee-shop—Selling by weight—Dwarf
orange trees—The tea shrub—Visit to the celebrated Fa-tee
gardens—Topics of conversation—Exaggeration—Rambles in the
suburbs—The city gate—Manufactories—Sandal-wood 81

CHAPTER VI.

Visit to the Temple of Honan—Colossal figures—The
priesthood—Votive offerings—Mummery—Holy pigs—Their
corpulency—The hall of the factory—Duck-boats—Alabaster—Chinese
snake—Leave Canton and return to Macao—Visit the Lappa
Island—Hill-pines—Mass of granite rocks—Their sonorous
qualities—Tanka-boats—Chinese burial-grounds—Cassilhas
Bay—Manufacture of ropes—Portuguese ladies at Macao—Origin of
that name—Another temple near Macao 107

CHAPTER VII.

The Jesuits’ church and college of San José—The gardens—Sail
from Macao for Singapore—Pass Pedro Blanco—Island of
Singapore—The town—Treaty for the cession of the island
to the British—Hills—Salubrity of the settlement—European
burial-ground—Vicinity of the settlement—Government hill—Grand
prospect—Commercial prosperity—New roads 124

CHAPTER VIII.

Description of an Ungka ape—His habits—Anecdotes of him—His
death—Dissection 142

CHAPTER IX.

The Botanic Garden—The Croton tiglium—The true
Camphor-tree—The Malaleuca Kayu-puteh—Excursion into the
interior of the island—Botanical productions—Chinese farms
and plantations—Pepper harvest—Plantain-trees—Gambir
plantations—Boiling houses—Cultivation and preparation of
Gambir—Dense vegetation of the Jungles—Establishment of a
Chinese-planter 174

CHAPTER X.

Excursion further inland—Dense forest—An extensive
swamp—Parasitical plants—Fungi—The pitcher plant—Return to
Singapore—The wild pine-apple—Use of that plant—Manufactory
of pearl sago—Visit to the Rajah of Johore—Interview
with his Highness—Excursion to St. John’s Island—Pulo
Panjang—Impenetrable jungle—New Harbour—Agar-agar 202

CHAPTER XI.

Sail for England—Crowned Pigeons—Straits of Dryan—Banca
Straits—Zutphen Islands—Escape and re-capture of a crowned
pigeon—Death of one of those birds—Dissection—Pass the
Cape of Good Hope—Fine weather—The trumpet weed—Volcanic
rocks—St. Helena—Buttermilk Point—James’s Town—Ficus
Religiosa—Over-population of James’s Town—Visit to the late
residence of Napoleon 228

CHAPTER XII.

Tomb of Napoleon—The willows—Contrasted feelings of the French
and English visitors to Buonaparte’s grave—Fish—Sail from St.
Helena—Island of Ascension—Frigate birds—Shark, Sucking, and
Pilot Fish—The Sargasso weed—Condition of the Crowned pigeons—A
swallow captured during migration—Temperature—Arrival at
Gravesend 246

APPENDIX.

Cocoa-nut tree 295

Morbid Appetite in Sheep 343

The Albatross 357

Notes on the Plantain and Banana Tree 399

The Inhabitant of the Nautilus Pompilius 406

On the habits of the Viverra Mussunga, or Java Cat 412

Luminosity of the Ocean 421

Treaty between the British and Acheenese governments 424

_Page 243, line 19_, after island, _insert_ with passengers of the French nation.

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