P. XXII. 
PORTUGUESE CEMETERY. 
hind us, we took a westerly course, and, passing 
over a broad bridge, were soon out of the Imperial 
city and again in the Tartar one. Here were 
some wide streets with shops crowded inside and 
out with all sorts of wares, and looking somewhat 
like a bazaar. Passing out of the city by the Fow- 
ching gate, we rode on in a northerly direction to 
pay a visit to the Portuguese cemetery. This very 
ancient place is in the form of a parallelogram, and 
is surrounded with walls. A broad, straight, paved 
walk leads up its centre. It is divided into two 
parts by a cross wall with a gateway in the middle 
of it. The outer department is used as a garden, and 
has rows of pillars on each side of the centre walk 
for the cultivation of vines. Passing up between 
these and through the gate in the cross wall, we 
found ourselves in the place of burial, in which lie 
the remains of some hundred of the early Catholic 
missionaries and their followers. Two marble 
tablets of massive size, beautifully carved and sur- 
mounted by the cross, stand on each side of this 
inner gateway. As we walked up the centre path- 
way we observed rows of tombs at right angles with 
the walk, one row behind the other in succession, all 
the way up to the further end of the cemetery. In 
front of each tomb there is a square slab of marble, 
carved with dragons on the top in high relief, and 
below this carving there are inscriptions in Chinese 
and Latin giving the name of the occupant of the 
tomb and the year in which he died. At the upper 
end of the walk there is a row of carved stones, in 
