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MYTHICAL MONSTERS.

THE FUNG WANG.
ACCORDING TO
FANG HENG.

MYTHICAL MONSTERS.

BY
CHARLES GOULD, B.A.,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA; LATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYOR
OF TASMANIA.

WITH NINETY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE. S.W.
PUBLISHERS TO THE INDIA OFFICE.

1886.

(All rights reserved.)

LONDON:
PRINTED BY W H ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL S.W.

PREFACE.

The Author has to express his great obligations to many gentlemen who haveassisted him in the preparation of this volume, either by affording accessto their libraries, or by furnishing or revising translations from theChinese, &c.; and he must especially tender them to J. Haas, Esq., theAustro-Hungarian Vice-Consul at Shanghai, to Mr. Thomas Kingsmill and theRev. W. Holt of Shanghai, to Mr. Falconer of Hong-Kong, and to Dr. N. B.Dennys of Singapore.

For the sake of uniformity, the author has endeavoured to reduce all theromanised representations of Chinese sounds to the system adopted by S. W.Williams, whose invaluable dictionary is the most available one forstudents. No alteration, however, has been made when quotations fromeminent sinologues like Legge have been inserted.

Should the present volume prove sufficiently interesting to attractreaders, a second one will be issued at a future date, in continuation ofthe subject.

June, 1884.

NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

The Publishers think it right to state that, owing to the Author’s absencein China, the work has not had the advantage of his supervision in itspassage through the press. It is also proper to mention that the MS. leftthe Author’s hands eighteen months ago.

13, Waterloo Place. S.W.
January, 1886.

CONTENTS.