A CHINESE JUNKTHE SI- KIANG, CALLED ALSO THE TIGRISWHAMPOACANTON, OR KUANGTSCHEU-FU MODE OF LIFE PURSUED BY EUROPEANSTHE CHINESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS CRIMINALS AND PIRATESMURDER OF VAUCHEEPROMENADES AND EXCURSIONS.

The inhabitants of this island were most probably tatooted, of which custom a particular description will be given hereafter, in the particular voyages of discovery in the South Sea.

Then again, there are some wandering Moors, who subsist entirely on gum senegal, and there have been many cases of shipwreck where the mariners have even subsisted for weeks on old shoes, tobacco, or whatever they could get; in short, what cannot custom effect?

Satan is their guide, the flesh is their instructor, hypocrisy their counsellor, vanity their fellow-soldier, their will their law, ambition their captain, custom their rule; temerity, boldness, impudence their art, toys their trading, damnation their end.

I had not rambled far before I witnessed a scene which forcibly reminded me of the savage country in which I then was, and the great alteration of character and customs a few days' sail will make.

* * EFFECTS OF FASHIONABLE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS UPON SERVANTS AND TRADESMEN.

They know love only as an appetite, and in accordance with Oriental taste and custom the Song of Songs compares it always to things that are good to eat or drink or smell.