We left Foochow after an early breakfast, and after half an hour on a boat ferry that took us from the city environs across the Min River and up a tributary, we landed in Minhou county, and took the highway that led across Yungtai county to Tehua.

This point is explained below.

It is all illusionary today — the fantasy of cowboyism, the western Yippee Syndrome of spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle, of hats as large as Bangalore parasols, of boots smeared with the residue of cowlots […]

Honey-plant [Melissa officinalis L[innaeus] i.e., Carl Linnaeus] contains a very low concentration of essential oil in leaves (0.02–0.2 vol%).