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WANDERINGS IN CHINA. 
Chap. I. 
south of China. Moreover, with all its faults, its import- 
ance may yet be acknowledged in the event of another 
war. Our countrymen cannot have so entirely forgotten 
the kind of protection which used to be afforded them 
by the Portuguese at Macao as to make them wish to 
be put in the same circumstances again; and it is of 
no little importance to know that their lives and pro- 
perty are safe under the British flag, which has 
. . . . " braved a thousand j^ears 
The battle and the breeze." 
