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twice wlmt they are willing to take. If you buy a few 

 things of liim, he will speak to you afterwards every time 

 yon pass his sliop, asking you to walk in and sit down, or 

 take a cup of tea, and yon wonder how be exiu get a living 

 where so many sell the iiamc trilling articles. Tbc tailors 

 sit a£ a table, not mi one ; and both tbey and the shoe- 

 makers work well and cheaply. The barbel's have plenty 

 to do, shaving licads and cleaning cam ; for which latter 

 operation they have a gi-eat array of little tweezers, picks, 

 and brushes. In the outskirts of the town are scores of 

 carpenters and blacksmiths. The former seem cbietiy to 

 make cotbns and highly painted and decorated clothes- 

 boxes. The latter are mostly gim-tnakers, and bore the 

 barrels of guns by hand, out of solid bars of iron. At 

 this tedious operation tht^'' may be seen every day, and 

 tbey manage to finish oil a gun %vith a flint lock vei-y 

 handsomely. AU about the streets arc sellers of water, 

 vegetables, fruit, soup, and agar-agar (a jelly made of sea- 

 weed), who have many cn'es as unintelligible as those of 

 London. Others carry a portable cooking-apparatus on a 

 pole balanced by a table at the other end, and serve up 

 a meal of shell-fish, rice, and vegetables for two or three 

 hallp)ence ; while coolies and boatmen waiting to be hired 

 are everywhere to be met witb. 



In the interior of the island the Chinese cut down forest 

 trees in the jungle, and saw tliem up into planks ; they 

 cultivate vegetables, whicli they bring to market ; and 

 they gi"ow pepper and gtmdjir, which form important 

 articles of export. Tlie French Jesuits !iave established 

 missions among these inland Chinese, which seem veiy 

 successful. I lived for several weeks at a time with the 

 missionary' at Bukit-tima, about the centre of the island, 

 where a pretty church has been built and there are about 

 300 converts. W hile there, 1 met a missionaiy who had j ust 

 arrived from Tonrpiin, where he liad been \hing for many 

 years. The Jesuits still do their work thoroughly as of old. 

 In Cochin China, Tonquin, and China, where all Christian 

 teachers are obliged to live in secret, and are liable to 

 persecution, expulsion, and sometimes death, every pro- 

 vince, even those farthest in the interior, has a permanent 

 J eauit mission establishment, constantly kept up by fi-esh 



