262
  agency of, in the diffusion of secular knowledge, 263-291
  apostles of science, 263
  creators of Chinese journalism 290
  medical work, 284
  lead a vernacular revolution, 290
  preparation of text-books, 287
  presidents of government colleges, 289
  teaching and preaching, 263
Mongolia, the largest division of Tartary, 57, 61
  contribution to the luxuries of the metropolis, 50
  inhabitants nomadic, 58
  has only three towns, 58
  Russians “came lean and went away fat,” 58
  Russians granted privilege of establishing an ecclesiastical mission, 57
Mongols, liable to military service, but prohibited from doing garrison
    duty in China, 59
  dress, 60
  forty-eight Mongolian princes, 59
  Mongol monks at Peking, 60
  nomadic wanderings, 58
  princes visit Cambalu (Peking), in winter, 59
  their camel, 60
  victorious over the Sungs, 130
  Yuen or Mongol dynasty, 131-134
Morrison, John R., son of Dr. Morrison the missionary, attempts to
  establish a printing-press, 283
Morrison, Robert, pioneer of Protestant missions to China, tomb of, at
  Macao, 9, 282
Moule, Bishop, makes Hang-chow seat of his diocese, 23
Mukden, city of, sacred to every Manchu, 56
  battle of, 189
Mu-wang, a Chou ruler, who seeks relief from ennui in foreign travel, 87

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Nanking, chief city of Kiangsu province, 25, 26
  called Kiangning by the Manchus, 26
  pillaged by Tartars, 129
Nanking, treaty of, 7
Nan-peh Chao, “Northern and Southern Kingdoms” four factions arising on
  the fall of the Tsin dynasty, 116
Napier, Lord, appointed superintendent of British trade in China, 153
  arrives at Macao and announces his appointment by letter to the prefect
    of Canton, who “tosses it back,” 153
  dies of chagrin at Macao, 153
Napoleon, Louis, and Annam, 165
Navy, the Chinese, 199-200
“Nest-builder, The,” 71
Nevius, Rev. J. L., missionary at Hangchow, 23
  at Chefoo, where he plants a church and a fruit garden, 32
Nevius, Mrs., at Chefoo, 32
Newspapers, reforms in, 215
  covertly criticise Government and its agents, 215
Ningpo, province of Chehkiang, 19
  its handsome people and their literary and commercial prominence, 20
  residence of the author for ten years, 20
Ningpo River, 18
Nogi, General, and the Russo-Japanese War, 188-192

O’Connor, Mr., British charge d’affaires, 179
Omesham Mountains, 51
Opening of China, the, a drama in five acts, 149
  result of collisions between Oriental conservatism and Occidental
  progress, 149, 150
Opium, extent of trade in, 303
  20,000 chests destroyed at request of Captain Charles Elliott, 154
Opium traffic, Commissioner Lin directed by Emperor Tao Kwang to abolish
    it, 152
  attitude of British Government, 304
  decree ordering its total abolition, 304
  regulations of Council of State, 305
Opium War, the, its causes, precipitation, and effects, 150-162
Oyama, Field-marshal, in the Russo-Japanese War, 187-192