The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . liy a mandate of banishment for the Celestials. Repeated edicts to thesame effect were issued, but in 1762 they had increased to such numbers that it wasnecessary for his Catholic Majesty to issue a command that all the Chinese in the Tin; : tiik sianisii islands. J93 Pliilippine Islands slioiiKl he hanj,ail/ wliicli onlcr, wc are tolil, was very generallvcaiiiL-d dut. In 1SI.) Hiey woie accused of ixjisouing tl>e wells, and thus brinf,inp inthe
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . liy a mandate of banishment for the Celestials. Repeated edicts to thesame effect were issued, but in 1762 they had increased to such numbers that it wasnecessary for his Catholic Majesty to issue a command that all the Chinese in the Tin; : tiik sianisii islands. J93 Pliilippine Islands slioiiKl he hanj,ail/ wliicli onlcr, wc are tolil, was very generallvcaiiiL-d dut. In 1SI.) Hiey woie accused of ixjisouing tl>e wells, and thus brinf,inp inthe cholera, when aj,ain, witli (lie greater number of the Europeans in Manilla, they fellvictims to the ijjnorant frenzy of the populace. Nothing, however, avails against theeaijerness of the Chinese to Hock to the islands, and now the ofReials attenii)t to mitigatetheir ardour by means of heavy and oppressive taxes levied on them ; and, in order toallow the Government odicials the more easily to levy these taxes, the unfortunate Mongolsarc comiKlled to kocp their Ixioks in S]>aiiisli. Needless to say, out of this struggle the. tr , I I /UN. lllIMflINi; ISLANDS. adroit Chinaman comes victorious, and would prosper were he taxed and oppressetl ahundred times more than lie is. As farmers, traders, shopkeepers—in every opening whichthey can find—tiie nimble, hard-working, quick-witted, unaggressive Sangleys make acomfortable livelihood, lay by a little money, and in many cases grow wealthy. Asjunk-men, artisans, gaixleners, and fishermen, they also hold their own, and are likelyin time, if they are left alone, to form important communities, which may displace the]ircsent sickly, reactionary, anachronistic Government, which vegetates in the country onlyto the countrys ruin. It is now, as it was in the days of Murillo Velarde, two hundredyears ago :— The Spaniards who settle here look upon these islands as a tavern ratherthan a permanent home. If they marry, it is by th
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