His literary attainments and business capacity peculiarly fit him for his work on the Chinese paper, and he is held in high esteem by Chinamen generally.

He is a man about four feet five inches in stature, and possibly forty years old.

It is hard, however, to tell a Chinaman's age, and so he may be five or ten years older.

He is what you would call a handsome man, with a fine head and a beaming countenance.

He showed great warmth in his greeting--and this was the more remarkable as the Chinaman is generally cool and impassive.