The first place we come to is the temple to Tung Yoh, His Sacred Majesty, King of the Eastern Hades, who is seen sitting at a table with a wife on either side of him, and his son and heir at the end of the table to the left. His Majesty has summer and vinter quarters, so that part of the year his image and those of his family are placed in the front part of the temple, while during the winter they occupy the back of the premisss. They are all dressed in silks, though it must be admitted the garments are rather threadbare and dilapidated, The last execution in Suongkong took place in the court yard of this temple and the executioner who was heavily bribed to undertake the job, was nervous and bungled it, so that instead of decapitating the criminal at the first blow, he cut the man's shoulder and it took upwards of five minutes to put the poor wretch out of his misery. There are gamblers, and fortunetellers, one of the latter having a long beard, the more easily to impress the greenhorns with the trath of his prognostications there are also dentists with hundreds of natural teeth for sale, and vendors of small things with their stalls in the yard and gateway of the temple.
YANG'S TEMPLE, The next temple to this is in honour of Yang whose face, and presumably person, are as black as a'coal. This worthy was formerly a mortal like most of the gods were, and while performing an act of humanity, namely svi life at a fire, was burnt toa cinder; hence the reason his deified remains are so black. Not satisfied with making a god of him, the people have placed his image in triplicate in the temple, of them being taken out for an airing with such paraphernalia as are eust tomanly used in processions, for he has requisite for the occasion Lelonging to himself. Tu the same temple are some of the yeds of sickness; there is one called the "Bull's Head," and another the 'Horse Face," and these are atten-dunts of the Rulers of Hades, and are so called from the shape of their heads. Other gods attend to fire, cold and the elements their' ugliness. alone being almost sufficient to put one into a fever. At the hack of the temple is Yang's ott which is about a foot square.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.