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tei|jlMive vuultti aru. soiiietiiiics re-opcni'd for tlie 

 iitl&?IQjB3it of a second corpse : tlie grai^ i0f ^ 

 poow class liave tuaMy a headstoftta* ufm 

 whieh CliinoFc cljamctprs are engrnved, giving 

 numv, f;iiiiil\ . ^r. ui' tlie individual, whose 

 mortal cluy rq)Osi's beneath. 



One of the promenades In the ^canity of 

 Macao, is to a t^mdy bay, oaH^ Cassilha^^B^y,''^ 

 in whidi there was nothing to excite interest, 

 liaviim* nn^relv barren Lill> iibont it, and a dis- 

 tant view of i^hmds. The only I>em liT <h'rived 

 from a visit to it, is the exercise of walking. 



I Teinarked some GMnese one morning neat 

 M^m etig^ged m mdMiig some very dnr&He 



ropes from rattfin : the ]>rocess of inannfactnre 

 was l)nt little tlift'erent. from tliat of lieni]). The 

 rattans were split longitudinally, soaked, and 



i&j& '^is^t wliieb fmm keep- 

 ing m motion^ Tirhilst aimttier h&tiiistg 



split rattans together, adding others to the length 

 from a (pumtity he carried around his waist, 

 until the required length of the rope was com- 

 pleted« 



The Portuguese ladles at Macao are, for the 



most part, possessed of Init few attractions. The 

 dark-eyed, beawtifiil dai^isels^ the d^troyerspf 



♦ So njinicd by the Pnrtvifruesc, after a jHctltres^we Sjiot 

 of the same nanie, near the city of Lisbon. 



