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i]]-wi]] of the French governor of Pondicherry and the confusion 

 of the revolution of 1789 had not interfered with its good effects. 

 The French say the Bishop d'Adran rendered the greatest services 

 to King Gial-Ong, or Nguyen- Anh, for he had both names. The 

 benefits derived from these services have proved somewhat 

 equivocal, for they have led to the annexation of the country. 

 However, they subdued the king's enemies for the time being ; 

 and as soon as he was peacefully established on his throne, 

 Bishop d'Adran retired to the garden that he possessed near 

 Saigon. He died 9th October, 1799, and the king gave him a 

 magnificent funeral. He raised over his remains a monument in 

 the style of an Anaraite pagoda. Within this is an altar on 

 which one sees the double blazon of the episcopal see and the 

 arms of Monseigneur d'Adran, on whom the king of France had 

 conferred the title of Count. Opposite the tomb is a stone covered 

 with Chinese inscriptions. The whole is surrounded with an 

 encircling wall, ornamented with the conventional animals Buch 

 as the Cochin Chinese delight to put around their graves. This 

 tomb has always been respected even when the A namite troops 

 occupied the plain of Ki-Hoa. 



Cholen. — Every one who visits Saigon goes to see Cholen, which 

 is five or six kilometres distant. Boats go every half-hour, 

 and the passage is a most picturesque one. There is also a railway 

 of modest pretensions, which passes along the roadside, leaving 

 to the left the pretty village of Choquan, and in five kilometres 

 one arrives at Cholen. The entrance is in front of the public 

 offices of the paymaster, the prefecture, the telegraph office, 

 barracks for the French garrison, and many pagodas, amongst 

 which is the pagoda of the warrior gods. On the principal altar 

 is an idol with a white beard having in his hands a bow and 

 arrows. This is probably Kouang-Ti, the Chinese Mars ; his son 

 Kouang-Ping and his faithful esquire are at his sides. There is 

 also the temple of K wan-Chin Whay-Quan, erected by the Chinese 

 of Canton to the goddess Koang-Yn or Apho, the creative power, 

 the mother of the Chinese of Canton, the patroness of navigators 

 and the Chinese Amphitrite. 



