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Chinese. — Their proneness to falsify. — Middling class of Chinese. — Penury of the 
lower orders. — The peasantry. — Infanticide. — Exposure of children. — The Alceste 
anchors off Macao. — Portuguese Governor. — Macao. — Nepenthes distillatoria. — 
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Embassy arrives at Manilla. — Festival. — Inhabitants’ dress. — Ambassador visits the 
Governor. — Mulatto women. — Cigars. — Their manfacture. — Bamboo dwellings. — 
Execution of malefactors. — Mode of strangling. — Embassy dines with the Governor. 
— Olla Podrida. — Andalusian. — Gallician. — Excursions to Los Bagnos. — River 
Passig. — Its scenery. — Canoes of the natives. — Convent of Benangonan. — Laguna de 
Baie. — Method of catching fish. — Franciscan Convent. — Superior of the Convent. — 
Epidemic disease. — Procession of Indians. — Los Bagnos. — Native village. — Small 
convent inhabited by a native priest. — Description of convent and its inhabitants. — 
Hot springs. — Temperature. — Vapour baths. — Hot stream. — Sonnerat’s statement. 
— Woods. — Trees. — Plants. — Cordage plant. — The nippis. — Arrival of the Am- 
bassador at Los Bagnos. — Return to Manilla. — Alceste leaves Manilla Bay. — Is 
wrecked. — Ambassador and suite land on Pulo Leat. — Ground cleared. — Scenery. — 
Want of water. — Excessive thirst of the party. — State of the Alceste. — Cask of water 
staved. — Ambassador and suite leave Pulo Leat for Batavia in two boats. — Sunken rocks. 
— Point of Banca. — Short allowance. — Fall of rain. — Dead calm. — Breeze. — Approach 
land. — Exhaustion of the men. — Anchor near Krawang Point. — Fresh water discovered. 
— The Krawang river. — Princess Charlotte transport. — Arrival in Batavia roads. — Ter- 
nate and Princess Charlotte dispatched to Pulo Leat. — Arrival at Batavia. — At the Dutch 
Governor’s. — Transaction at Pulo Leat after the departure of the Ambassador and suite. 
— Heavy fall of rain. — Musquitoes. — Captain Maxwell addresses his men. — Malay 
prows attack the wreck. — Malay boats. — The party chased by Malays. — Two of the 
Alceste’s boats appear. — Malays make for the wreck. — Plunder it. — Picquets station- 
ed at the landing place. — Party retires to rest. — Encampment alarmed by a large 
monkey. — Scolopendras. — Scorpions. — Alceste fired by the Malays. — Garrison again 
alarmed by a monkey. — A party dispatched to the ship. — Twelve sail of Malay 
prows appear. — A well dug. — Fortress. — Two canoes laden with plunder. - Malay 
prow attacked by Alceste’s barge. — Commander of the barge kills two Malays. — Barge’s 
grapnell sinks the prow. — Malays fight in the water. — Three dragged on board the 
barge. — Two die. — Third made prisoner. — Employed to cut wood. — Makes his 
escape. — Fourteen Malay prows appear off Pulo Leat. — Captain Maxwell gives orders 
to prepare for a voyage to Batavia. — Captain visited by the Rajah. — He musters his 
men. — Malay prows increase to forty-five. — A sail descried in the distance. — Ternate 
arrives. — The shipwrecked band embarks for Batavia 23/ 
