122 CHINESE TEMPLE. 



SO many hearts in Lisbon, are here sehlom to be 

 met with. The lower class may be seen covered 

 by their mantilla, walking at a funereal pace to 

 mass or confession ; the only duties for which a 

 Portuguese female considers it worth while to 

 take exercise. The higher class are carried from 

 one street to another by negroes, in clumsy and 

 tawdry palankeens. 



I have before observed that Macao signifies in 

 the Portuguese language a mallet, and the name 

 has been given to it from the resemblance of the 

 peninsula to that instrument ; the sandy isthmus 

 which runs out, connecting the elevated spot 

 upon which Macao has been erected to the main 

 land, resembles the handle. At the distance of 

 about half-way across this sandy neck of land 

 the Chinese barrier is erected, beyond which no 

 European is suffered to pass. 



The morning previous to my departure from 

 Macao, I visited another Chinese temple, situ- 

 ated near the sandy isthmus. It had nothing 

 to recommend it for picturesque or romantic 

 beauty ; its interior was more extensive than 

 the one I had previously visited. Passing 

 through the temple, numerous granite rocks 

 were scattered about the brow of a hill in their 

 natural state, and upon many of them were 

 Chinese inscriptions, })robably moral sentences, 



