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THE GREAT SLAUGITTER-IIOUSE. 
town, situated a few miles nearer the sea than Canton, 
and possessing the only diy-dock in that part of China. 
Heavy ships cannot go above Whampoa on account of a 
barrier across the river: hence its importance. 
The view about AV^hampoa is beautiful from an upper 
point of the river. The opposite sketch, from the pencil 
of Mr. Edward Kern, gives a most truthful idea of it. 
Ifong-Koug is more of a European settlement than 
any thing else, and tlie same is pretty much the case 
with Macao. The former of these is remarkable as the 
residence of money-makers of all nations, and a few 
ramrod-like English soldiers, who — to use the words of 
an old messmate — walk up and down the Queen’s Road, 
encased — dingy-boy like — in dangerously-tight trousers, 
and amuse themselves by switching the dust from them 
with very delicate canes. Macao is remarkable for its 
pure air, cool temperature, line summer retreats, and as 
the residence of Poidugars great epic poet, — the second 
Milton,— Camoens the beautiful. AVe visited his cave, 
the birthplace of his most glorious lines, and went away 
with sad thouerhts of his brief thousrh brilliant advent. 
So much for the first three. And now for Canton, the 
city of a million or more, and the grand centre of 
butchery, the great slaughter-house through which passes 
much of the surplus population of China, entering as 
men and cast out as headless trunks, — the victims of 
civil war. I again turn to my journal, the Hancock 
having been ordered up the river for a few days : — 
“AA''e left our ship, which was anchored above the 
‘Factories,’ and pulled toward the ‘gardens’ through 
such numbers of boats that it was almost impossible to 
