The kind at sixty dollars does not find a very ready market; the greater part of it is exported to England.

The "bloom" is not met with in trade.
I must mention a sight which I accidentally saw, one evening, upon the Pearl stream.

It was, as I afterwards heard, a thanksgiving festival in honour of the gods, by the owners of two junks that had made a somewhat long sea voyage without being pillaged by pirates, or overtaken by the dangerous typhoon.
Two of the largest flower boats, splendidly illuminated, were floating gently down the stream.

Three rows of lamps were hung round the upper part of the vessels, forming perfect galleries of fire; all the cabins were full of chandeliers and lamps, and on the forecastle large fires were burning out of which rockets darted at intervals with a loud report, although they only attained the elevation of a few feet.

On the foremost vessel there was a large mast erected, and hung with myriads of coloured paper lamps up to its very top, forming a beautiful pyramid.