You got to wait for the tide to run out for prawns. They come down with the tide. And you got to wait till the little ones go down to get the big king-prawns. They always come down last.

Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers.

Half-baptisms are not recorded, though some clergymen make memoranda of them.

, I.iii.1.2: Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]