To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner

He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver.

Foochow was a picturesque city of considerable size and consequence before its designation in 1842 as one of the five original treaty ports. It was the headquarters of Manchu civil and military offcialdom in Fukien Province. Its location on the Min River, which flowed through a major tea-producing district, and its excellent harbor gave the city additional importance as a port.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers