A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . ans and take a mouthful of vegetables ormeat, if they have any, and so continue until their meal isfinished. The crew are all Chinese, and they do their workquietly and satisfactorily. Nearly all the steamers thattouch at China ports use only Chinese for seamen. Notlong since, Australia and New Zealand have passed lawsprohibiting all Asiatics from entering their countries,except when a bounty of one hundred pounds (or fivehundred dollars) is paid, and that is equal to prohibitingtheir coming into the country, but they did not deportthose who were already
A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . ans and take a mouthful of vegetables ormeat, if they have any, and so continue until their meal isfinished. The crew are all Chinese, and they do their workquietly and satisfactorily. Nearly all the steamers thattouch at China ports use only Chinese for seamen. Notlong since, Australia and New Zealand have passed lawsprohibiting all Asiatics from entering their countries,except when a bounty of one hundred pounds (or fivehundred dollars) is paid, and that is equal to prohibitingtheir coming into the country, but they did not deportthose who were already in the country, so that there are insome parts of Australia, many Chinese coolies, or laborers,at this time. They are keen after the money, and, laborbeing so scarce, they get good wages, same as the whitemen, usually seven shillings (or one dollar and seventy-fivecents) per day. Many of them have small garden farms,raising vegetables near the cities. They are very econom-ical, living on about one-fifth the expense of a white man, 119. and, when they are old, they invariably go back to China todie, and if they die while away from China, their bones aresent home for interment. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The first glimpse we had of the Philippine Islands wasin passing- through the Basilan strait, where we werequite close to shore and saw the town of Zamboangi, onthe Island of Mindanao (which is about one hundred milesnortheast of the great Island of Borneo). A small numberof United States soldiers are stationed here; we did notstop, but could easily see Old Glory flying on the flag-pole over the parade grounds. Oh! of course I dont always rave,Whenever I see the old flag wave, but its the emblem of the land I love, and looks mightygood to me, especially when I havent seen it for threemonths. The country around Zamboangi looks better than anywe have seen since leaving Australia, and we have seenislands almost without number. This part of MindanaoIsland is covered with cocoa-nut groves,
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