. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. View of Macao. attractive object to strangers is the grotto of the celebrated Camoens, whowas both a soldier and a poet, in which latter capacity he drew upon him-self the displeasure of the Portuguese government in India, by some satiri-cal compositions directed against the viceroy, who banished him for fiveyears to Macao, then a new colony, where he selected, as a favorite retreat,a cool grotto formed by three huge fragments of rock ; a spot well suited tothe romantic genius of the poet
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. View of Macao. attractive object to strangers is the grotto of the celebrated Camoens, whowas both a soldier and a poet, in which latter capacity he drew upon him-self the displeasure of the Portuguese government in India, by some satiri-cal compositions directed against the viceroy, who banished him for fiveyears to Macao, then a new colony, where he selected, as a favorite retreat,a cool grotto formed by three huge fragments of rock ; a spot well suited tothe romantic genius of the poet, who there, it is said, composed the famous Lusiad, a poem of which the Portuguese are justly proud, although theauthor was suffered to subsist upon charity, during the latter part of his grotto stands now in the Casa gardens, but has been disfigured by deco-rations in very bad taste, its most conspicuous object being, at present, amodern summer-house erected on its Camoens Grotto. Soon after the British merchants had removed from Canton to Macao, ithappened that some English and Chinese sailors quarrelled in the street,
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