Chapter X. CHEFOO. TIENTSIN. PEKING. THE GREAT WALL.
Chefoo—The Foreign Settlement—The Yellow River—Silk— Its Production—Taku Forts—The Peiho River—Chinese Progress—Floods In Pei-chil-li—Their Effects—Tientsin —The Sisters' Chapel—Condition Of The People—A Midnight Storm—Tung-chow—Peking—The Tartar And Chinese Divisions Of The Metropolis—Its Roads, Shops, And People—The Foreign Hotel—Temple And Domestic Architecture—The Tsungli Yamen—Prince Kung And The High Officers Of The Empire—Literary Championship—The Confucian Temple—The Observatory— Ancient Chinese Instruments—Yang's House—Habits Of The Ladies—Peking Enamelling—Yuen-ming-yuen— Remarkable Cenotaph—A Chinese Army—Li-hung-chang—The Inn Of 'patriotic Perfection'—The Great Wall—The Ming Tombs.
Chefoo is a favourite watering-place for foreigners resident at Peking or Shanghai, for there bracing air and sea-bathing may be enjoyed during the hottest months of summer.
The beach on which the European hotel is built, skirts the foot of a low range of grassy hills, and reminded me, in its semicircular sweep and general aspect, of Brodic Bay in Arran, on the west coast of Scotland. I have a Hvely recollection of Chefoo Bay; of its stretch which at the time appeared interminable; and of the soft yielding sand over which, with a friend remarkable alike for his good-nature, weight and agility, I had to run from the steamer to forestall the other passengers and
