‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […] .’

At the top of this hill, lushly bambooed, stood the temple […]

Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang. It disappeared during the Ming period to re-emerge in the Ching dynasty in Kang Hsi’s reign. It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.

Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.