m A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



guard-houso, and now send him to your Excellency, in 

 order that your Excellency mny CDndescend to settle this 

 doubly scjindaloua c«jse according to jiistico. 

 " God guard your Excellency. 



'*JOA0 MAJJIA FEKREIRA I>0 AMAKAI* 

 " To THE Most Illustihom Sejihob Conbbwteitkj lOAQtrtH 



*'3VU JSZ DECStm OF turn CiTt. 



"Macao, Jttfle Sth, 1840," 



To dance itttendance beyond this point on Portuguese 

 justice at Miicao seemed to me unwoi-thy of my position, 

 and hopeless as to the object The judge would have 

 referred mc back to the Governor, whose tool ho was, and 

 mth whom alone I could properly hold oflScial intercourse ; 

 in the meantime Mr. Summers must lie in prison, awaituig 

 Hie " course of law/' wliidi, let me add, hm within these 

 last tea years left British subjeetR to die incarcerated in 

 this very prison. I decided on liberating him at once. 



To do so with the least poHsible risk of any disastrous 

 incident was now the great object ; and I adopted tiie 

 mode of proceeding which seemed the most promising 

 for this 011(1. A second boat being despatched to the 

 M^emider^ with directions that the signal should be made 

 for the " Boats to land immediately,'' I went board 

 the Canton steamer, which was moored off the town, and 

 took my place as umpire at the regatta, which waa 

 about to commence. We started the sailing vessels — ^and 



