The Sooloo Archipelago. 143 



morning to night, silence and desolation now reign 

 supreme. 



Twice a month small steamers belonging, to 

 Chinese merchants at Singapore, call at Jolo and 

 Maimbung to deliver goods, and take away the 

 shell and other produce to Singapore. These 

 steamers fly the English ensign, and are officered 

 by Englishmen ; but the business of the ship and 

 cargo is managed entirely by Chinamen. 



There is one other European living in Sooloo 

 outside the Spanish walls, Captain H. Schiick, a 

 German, who has traded for many years there, and 

 now devotes his energies to planting cacao. Twice 

 a year a German man-of-war visits Sooloo on his 

 behalf, and many English officers and other visitors 

 still retain a lively recollection of the hospitality 

 of this patriarchal establishment.. 



