We sailed for Wampoa, where I was kindly received by my Chinese friends... ...There is no change of fashion: the oldest articles you can fall in with are the same make and fashion as the newest, and a traveller who visited the country two hundred years ago could know no difference but in the men. They would be new, the old having died; the present race, I may say, wearing their dress and inhabiting their houses without the least change in the general appearance. The only instrument of music I saw was a bagpipe, like the small Lowland pipe, on which they play well. Their gongs cannot be called a musical instrument. When John Tuck, the deputy emperor, appears (he is so-called by the seamen on account of his having a gallows on board the grand boat which is a large as a seventy-four-gun ship and crowded with attendants) his band consists only of bagpipes. Their gongs are only used that I heard to make tchin, tchin to Joss in bad weather, and at their paper sacrifices, and every vessel, down to the smallest sampan, has a Joss on board. << less