Amy and Marion's voyage around the world . CHAPTER XI. MACAO, AND RETURN TO HONG KONG. AMYS STORY. Royal Hotel Macao, , 18—. -a N a great, barn-like room of this ambi-tiously-named house I am whiling awaythe hours of a rainy day, my friend, by writingto you. Marion and I are spending a few daysin the Portuguese town which is chiefly asso-ciated in the public mind with the poet Camoens,who, for a satire upon the Viceroy of Goa, wasbanished from his home, and died here in exile.(Marion, looking over my shoulder, makes anobjection : You seem to take it for granted thatGussie is not a well
Amy and Marion's voyage around the world . CHAPTER XI. MACAO, AND RETURN TO HONG KONG. AMYS STORY. Royal Hotel Macao, , 18—. -a N a great, barn-like room of this ambi-tiously-named house I am whiling awaythe hours of a rainy day, my friend, by writingto you. Marion and I are spending a few daysin the Portuguese town which is chiefly asso-ciated in the public mind with the poet Camoens,who, for a satire upon the Viceroy of Goa, wasbanished from his home, and died here in exile.(Marion, looking over my shoulder, makes anobjection : You seem to take it for granted thatGussie is not a well informed young woman. 286. Macao. 289 Do you imagine she never heard of the man andhis stupid Lusiad? Not at all, I reply. I merely wanted to help her realize just wherewe are, and to fix the associations upon hermind.) Mr. Dowling, who might be termed our fairygodfather, transported us hither, and invitedMr. Duncan to be one of the party. The latter,in his joy at escaping from the ship for a season,left his sedateness behind, and became like aschoolboy off for a holida}r, and during our threehours voyage from Hong Kong in the steamerWhite Cloud, we were all extremely merry. Macao is built upon the sloping hillsides arounda crescent-shaped bay. Its row of white andcream-colored houses od the curving Praya con-trasts effectively with the deep blue of the watersthat break against its granite sea-wall, and Euro-pean travellers say it reminds them of someItalian town on the Mediterranean. The RoyalHotel stands upon the Praya, and from itsfront balcony we have the most stirring view af- 290 Amy and Marions Voyage. f
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