Drawing nearer to a faint clash of cymbals in some joss-house, they halted before a blind wall.

The "Valley of the Ten Thousand Rocks," as the spot is called, in the midst of which stands a joss-house (or temple), may be reached in a pleasant walk from the harbour of Amoy, by way of the wonderful Rocking Stone, and along paths lined with aloes and cacti.

The owner of the humblest dwelling almost invariably offers to the foreigner who enters it the hospitable tea-cup, without any apparent apprehension that his guest, by using, will defile it; and priests and worshippers attach no idea of profanation to the presence of the stranger in the joss-house.

I have installed myself in the joss-house, my bedroom being on one side, and my sitting-room on the other, of the idol's altar.

I found my joss-house so gloomy and low, that I have returned to my first quarter in the garden, on a mound overlooking the river.

However, the French declined to go any farther; so here we remain for the night, and we have got into a joss-house, which is lucky, for we have no tents with usonly a very light kit and three days' provisions for each person.

There are an immense number of joss-houses in Chinatown.

The Chinese lily is in full bloom at this season, and it occupies a conspicuous place in the joss-houses.

And a joss-house is interesting" "But the opium smoking" Angela persisted, suspecting that he meant to slide off the subject.

The cheap lodging-houses had trailed the green over their illuminated transoms, and even on Mott Street the Chinamen had hung up strings of evergreen over the doors of the joss-house and the gambling-house next door.

Outwardly, it had not the flaunting distinction of the joss-houses of the Far East or those of New York or San Francisco.

With my few words of Tahitian I gained from her that the joss-house was open.

Whether the prayers had been granted, were out of date, or the time paid for hanging in the joss-house had expired, the crematory was four feet deep with the red and white rice-paper legends, awaiting an auspicious occasion for incineration.

Walking back, late in the afternoon, from the joss-house, we met Lovaina in her automobile, with the American negro chauffeur, William, and Temanu, Atupu, and Iromea.

And at last, when nightfall came, and the wattle joss-house place got a bit too shadowy for their tasteall these here savages are afraid of the dark, you knowand I started a sort of 'Moo' noise, they built big bonfires outside and left me alone in peace in the darkness of my hut, free to unscrew my windows a bit and think things over, and feel just as bad as I liked.

After that we just had fun, going to a joss-house to have our fortunes told, where a quaint priest and acolyte went through all sorts of comic mysteries, and finally paired Octavia off with one of the detectives for her fate!