. William H. Seward's travels around the world. cial and postal steam-lines, by whichshe has expected to maintain her prestige as a maritime power ofthe first rank. Her experience has demonstrated the truth of twopolitical axioms: First, that the possession of extensive foreign col-onies adds immeasurably to the credit and prestige of a nation;secondly, that a nation which cannot maintain peace at home, can-not permanently hold foreign possessions. As our habit is, we take away from Saigon many photographic 268 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. illustrations of manners, dress, and scenery. They
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. cial and postal steam-lines, by whichshe has expected to maintain her prestige as a maritime power ofthe first rank. Her experience has demonstrated the truth of twopolitical axioms: First, that the possession of extensive foreign col-onies adds immeasurably to the credit and prestige of a nation;secondly, that a nation which cannot maintain peace at home, can-not permanently hold foreign possessions. As our habit is, we take away from Saigon many photographic 268 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. illustrations of manners, dress, and scenery. They are French,and admirably executed. We are puzzled, however, in our effortsto determine the truthfulness of one of them, notwithstanding itsofficial verification. It represents the Queen of Cambodia, protegeeof the French Empire, with naked feet and ankles, encircled bycostly gold bangles and jewels, while her head is covered with aParisian bonnet of the year 1862, presented to her, with otherarticles of European fashion, by the French - / / - / / / - • QT3TEN OF CAMBODIA. PART III. THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO, STRAITS OFMALACCA, AND CEYLON. CHAPTEE I. THE CHINA SEA, SINGAPORE, AND THE STRAITS OF SUNDA. Our Distance from Home.—Calm Seas and Temperate Breezes.—Singapore.—A Dispatchfrom Boston.—The People of Singapore.—Their Habitations.—Life in the Tropics.—A Dutch Steamer.—Our Crew.—A Question of Kaces.—Kather Hot.—Banca —The Straits of Sunda. China Sea, January 9th.—In the five months since we lefthome, we reckon in distances made, eighteen thousand miles, anaverage of one hundred and twenty miles a day, although it seemsas if we had been at rest half the time. While we are passing onour right the extreme promontory of Cochin China, we are leavingon our left, at a distance of one hundred miles, the Philippine Isl-ands, the relic of Spanish empire in the East Indies. We continueenjoying calm seas and temperate breezes. Singapore, Jan
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