^:^ ASIA L/BRARY ANNEX 2 ^ c-v. - QJorttEU Uttineraitg ffiihtara Strata, SJem ^mk CHARLES WILLIAM WASON COLLECTION CHINA AND THE CHINESE THE GCFTOF CHARLES WILLfAM WASON CLASS OF 1B76 1918 Cornell University Library DS 709.T19 3 1924 023 226 446 The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924023226446 ORIENTALIA Pamphlets and Magazine Excerpts NINGPO TO SHANGHAI, IN 1857 by William Tarrant. NINGPO TO SHANGHAI IN 18 5 7 A IVfA TffM lipRDERS OF AN-WHUI PROVINCE, MOO-CHOW-FOO AND THE GlfAND CANAL.-] —www^i»» M»aw CANTON; >{»^.(J. ^-f'HNKi / / PREFACE, The following pages were printed off as they were written, shortly after the writer's return to Hongkong in I857i sQcl would have been published before, had time allowed the prepAation of a map and index which he intJMided to accompany the itinerary, Alm^hih&WilijoIe of the country travelled over has since fallen into the hands of the rebels^ so that, though late, what is now submitted will prove useful to future travellers in affording materials for a contrast. WILLIAM TARHANT^ Cantoo; January !i!lst, 1862^ INDEX TO ORDER OF TRAVEL. DEPAETMENT OF NING-PO (CHE-KIANG.) KING-PO MSTiaCT Kong-keao to Ning-kong-jow p_ j Jiing-koDg-jow to Haou-long p. 2. DEPARTMENT OF SHOU-HING (CHE-KIANG.)' ' f'UNG-'WHA DISTEICT. Haou-long to Ho-pe:chee p. 2. Hd-pe-chee to the Kwei-ling-foong . , p. II. '- • SING-CHONG DISTRICT. Kwer-Ung-foong to the Poosan Monastery . p. 13. The P(^,^jgni^astery to the Iron 15.* Streams . p. The Iron Streams to Sing-chong .... p, 24. D2aNG DISTKICT. Sing-chong to Dzing , p. 33. TCHI-KI DISTRICT. Dzing to the Fong je-ling , p. 35, to The Feng-je-h'ng Fong-je-how p. 39. DEPARTMENT Of HANG-CHOW (CHE-KIANG.) TSIEN-TANG DISTRICT. Fong-je-how to Foo-yang p. 40. FOO-YANG DISTRICT. Joo-yang to the Dung-ling p. 42. YU-HONG DISTRICT. the The Dung-ling to Nan-kae-Iing , . , p. 43, LING-HAEN DISTRICT. to . The Jian-kae-ling Ling-haen . , . , p, 44. U-TSIEN DISXBICT. LJng-haen to the Woo-ling-ize p. 45. Woo-ling-sze to the Eastern Teen-muk-san , p. ij. Fast Teeiv-tnuk-san to the Choey-yen-sze . p. 51» The Choey-yen-sze to the Western Teen-muk- san . p. 62. l"he Western Teen-muk-san to the Tai-ye- wan-ling . , p. 63. DEPAKTMENT O^" NING-KWOK (A.N-WHUY.) NING-KWdfe DISTiaCT " *> Tai-ye-wan-ling to Taichew-fong-ling . p. 63. ^^li^^hew-fong-liag to the Confucian Pass p. 76. ^""^^lap'AKTMENT OF HOO-CHOW (KIANG-SU.) V -^-.j^OU-FOONG; DISTRICT The Koon-jfootquan to Haou-foong , , p. 77, ! ANE-CHEE DISTRICT. Haou-foong tof Sze-tche-sah p. 78. Sze-tche-sah to Ane-chee ..... p. 79. Ane-chee to Mai-chee p. 80. jllai-chee.to Hoo-cho\r-foo p. 81. WU-DZING DISTEICT. Kan-dzing to Jin-zek p. 82. DEPARTMENT Of KEA-HING (KIANG-STJ.) KWEI-GNAN DISTRICT. J|n-zek to Say-ehee and Ping-bong . p, 83, DEPARTMENT OF SUNG-KIANG (KIANG-SU.) TSING-PpO DISTRICT. Ching-zek to Ching-koo-yuen . .p. 8S. SHANGHAI DISTRICT. Ching-koo-yuen to Shanghai . , . p> 87, DEPARTiMENT OF NINGPO. District ofNingpo. ^ Kong keao ^ p (Stream's mouth) is a small village of one street on the right bank of a wide gtream, crossed, though fordable in the dry season, by a substantml^roofed bridge. Ihis bridge is lined on the viitegf*ur sJ^hern side, for about a hundred feet, with small shops and idol depositaries. P^eeding from kong-keao to Ning-kong jow * the course, to the right of a seven storied Pagoda on the bill over the north bank of the stream, is about N. by W. the distance 14 ntiles. The road, or pathway, about five feet wide, is laid with round and rough dark red granite blocks. Road ways of similar description, in some cases im- proved with a. centre line of flat slabs, are found to run between most of the villages and thorough-fares throughout the province (Chekiang);—stone tablets here aiid there bearing and immortalizing the names of the iildividaals by whose means the works were effected. The most unpleasant part of the travelling in this quarter is the continued sight of and effluvia from ordure pans and necessaries on the sides of the road. In half a dozen hours' travelling, as many as halfa hun dred of these necessaries are to be seen, and of pans, * The Chinese characters for this as well as the names of the ether places mentioned will be found in a separate inde.v. 2. Ningpo District. abput three feet across and of similar depth, the num- ber is i^ncountable. '1 he absence of other material for manure is, of course, the apology ; though, as such things are not met with in such profusion, or in such display in other parts of the province, the applogy 15 a poor one. The lEnd yields tMf'o crops annualiy--that of the. autumn will be rice principally ;—of the spring, Wheat, Grassicher (1) Beans, Tea and Cloyer. The latter is ,grown over the Paddy stumps, With which it is afterwards ploughed up and left to rot and enrich the soilr The Teas, Beans, and Bean seed of the Grassicher spdken of, are cultivated principally , for the oil expressed from them. The leffves'and sptouts of the latter are eaten as a vegetabfe, The. region hereabout, however, is re^^kable for the pro. duction of a medicinal bulb called -T'ko^^ap ^ -j^ (2) Growing as a grass, its blade's reseriibie tH^se of the carnation. It is planted in the fourth month of one year and rem ins until the fbfiffh month'^f the year following, when it is taken up and sold to Urug- gets as atonic for sixty cash a catty. During thg year of its -growth, Potatoes, Hetap or Cotton may be grown over it, A mow of land produces from two to five hundred Chin^ (3 ) of the bulb in a year. Rushes for mat making are grown 'here too, and. Mulberry and Tallow trees flourish largely. From the berry of the latter the candles usfed in Chel^iang are made. animal fat Coated with th^ey bUrn -^ell, though the* clumsy bamboo wicks, swathed #it£ cotton twist' emit a good deal of unpleasant smoke. .* • To reach Ning Kong jow, the stream has to be crossed three times, one of the bridg^at a place called Seang'koh deo, t^ith some S^qOOJu habitants, being rooofed over as at Jtong "Meo. About 5 le (4) from Seang'ho deo is another vQlage' called I>MW^-JeAoic/with 100 families ;— a family being estimated as consisting on the average of five souls. There may be other causes apart from the ^ae» Ningpo District. 3 tice of recording families in the ancestral hall which induce an acquaintance with the subject ;—but. it is a circumstance of note that a Chinese, however loiv his rank, if asked the number of families in his vil- lage is invariably prompt with a reply,—and in three answers out of four the number approximates. As NingJcong,Jow is often visited by iVlission- aries from Kingpo, no more need be said of it than that it appears to be a place of considerable traffic in timber and bamboos, as seen in rafts on the stream. Of its reported 3 000 families it boasts a fine ancestral Hall of the *M Foo family. Four le from Ning kong jow, in a Spu' vvesterly direetiooa, is a village called Pow site hoe The • sceneTy^ oji the„^Qjad is most pleasing; the high cliffs overhanging'the stream giving it the charac- ter of the country about the Swiss Lakes. Fishing with cormorants is common here;—the house wives busy with cotton spinning. About three mites from Pow she ho in a Nor' wes- terly direction is the Heaven Struck rock, a ' spot of considerable note among the natives of the district. The path way to it is cut out of solid brown lava like rock,-p-ihe hill angling up at jabout,80<» to a height of seven or eight hundred feet. Teen tutig gun is the native na.me of the locality. The stream at this place, though shallow, flows rapidly from the Eastward. A little to the northward of Teen tung guv- is the village of Tehing koe with l,Qo6 families. Good blue Bricks and Tiles are made at Tching koe-, * '—^the sisse of the former, 13 inches by by 2 being quite out of pariiamentary standard. They are half burnt as in the south. In building they are placed edgeways—^hollows oi from three to nhie inches being left throughout each wall.' This jicigde of building is the same throughout the pfo- 4 Mngpo JHstriet. viiiae. These briclcs ai'e sold at the Kiln at 1600^ Cash- per thousand, or, according^ to their cube^ someAvhat dearer tjhan Bricks in the South. 'the tiles aie two cash each—also dearer then the better burnt Kwaag turig tiles.. - '<L'^' Nor' west from Tchingkoe, distant Five ie, is the . village of Ghong ching with &00 families. On the road to it some of the cultivation is found to be taken, up with young firs.