`` Oh , I should . I love dearly to go poking about in the warehouses with Uncle Mac ; everything is so curious and new to me ; and I 'm specially interested in China because you have been there . '' `` I 'll show you two genuine Chinamen who have just arrived . You will like to welcome Whang Lo and Fun See , I 'm sure . '' `` Do n't ask me to speak to them , uncle ; I shall be sure to laugh at the odd names and the pig-tails and the slanting eyes . Please let me just trot round after you ; I like that best . '' `` Very well ; now steer toward the wharf where the big ship with the queer flag is . That 's the ` Rajah , ' and we will go aboard if we can . '' In among the ships they went , by the wharves where the water was green and still , and queer barnacles grew on the slippery piles . Odd smells saluted her nose , and odd sights met her eyes , but Rose liked it all , and played she was really landing in Hong Kong when they glided up to the steps in the shadow of the tall `` Rajah . '' Boxes and bales were rising out of the hold and being carried into the warehouse by stout porters , who tugged and bawled and clattered about with small trucks , or worked cranes with iron claws that came down and clutched heavy weights , whisking them aloft to where wide doors like mouths swallowed them up . Dr. Alec took her aboard the ship , and she had the satisfaction of poking her inquisitive little nose into every available corner , at the risk of being crushed , lost , or drowned . `` Well , child , how would you like to take a voyage round the world with me in a jolly old craft like this ? '' asked her uncle , as they rested a minute in the captain 's cabin . `` I should like to see the world , but not in such a small , untidy , smelly place as this . We would go in a yacht all clean and comfortable ; Charlie says that is the proper way , '' answered Rose , surveying the close quarters with little favour . `` You are not a true Campbell if you do n't like the smell of tar and salt-water , nor Charlie either , with his luxurious yacht . Now come ashore and chin-chin with the Celestials . '' After a delightful progress through the great warehouse , peeping and picking as they went , they found Uncle Mac and the yellow gentlemen in his private room , where samples , gifts , curiosities , and newly arrived treasures of all sorts were piled up in pleasing pro-fusion and con-fusion . As soon as possible Rose retired to a corner , with a porcelain god on one side , a green dragon on the other , and , what was still more embarrassing , Fun See sat on a tea-chest in front , and stared at her with his beady black eyes till she did not know where to look .
Mr. Whang XXXXX was an elderly gentleman in American costume , with his pig-tail neatly wound round his head .
Alec Chinamen Kong Lo Mac chin-chin minute pro-fusion quarters tea-chest