. In brightest Asia. sorts ofEastern costumes, — Malaysian,Mohammedan, BengaU, Kling,Chinese, Tamil, etc., — areexceedingly picturesque andamusing. They are all tremen-dous traders; they dog yoursteps, haunt the verandas ofyour hotel, and pester you inyour rooms, to buy jewelry,canes, shoes, white duck suits,silk fabrics, curios of every sort,or to ride in their queer littlepony carriages, till you have toshake them off rather rudely attimes to get rid of a half-dozen of thembeset me from the street, push-ing their goods at me through the railing of the hotel veranda, where I sa
. In brightest Asia. sorts ofEastern costumes, — Malaysian,Mohammedan, BengaU, Kling,Chinese, Tamil, etc., — areexceedingly picturesque andamusing. They are all tremen-dous traders; they dog yoursteps, haunt the verandas ofyour hotel, and pester you inyour rooms, to buy jewelry,canes, shoes, white duck suits,silk fabrics, curios of every sort,or to ride in their queer littlepony carriages, till you have toshake them off rather rudely attimes to get rid of a half-dozen of thembeset me from the street, push-ing their goods at me through the railing of the hotel veranda, where I sat drinking in the lovelytropical scenery and sniffing the sea breeze, which, though this is only a degree and a half fromthe equator, renders the climate here always the same and not very hot. The hotel clerk tookpity on me, and rushed out of the office with a big squirt-gun filled with water, and gave thestreet venders a shower bath, much to my relief and their amusement. But it scattered them,and that VICTORIA REGIA. /^m(^ri(;a9 /T\etl?odist /r\lssioi7. I have found out some American Methodist Episcopal missionaries here, who have also aschool of 400 Chinese boys (in English), and they have made me much at home, having meattend their semi-annual prize giving in the Town Hall, day before yesterday, at which theGovernor presided, and also to dinner at the house of Mr. Munson, the principal, are several American teachers, and one from Prince Edward Island, a nephew of myfriend Mr. D. of Charlottetown. There are many very wealthy Chinese here, and some of them liberally favor the missions, andplace their sons in the school. They raised $6,000, half the price of the school grounds, and Equatorial Asia. 99 presented it to the mission when they began, and they will do much more in the future. Many ofthem are millionnaires. Some of them have magnificent houses in European style, with spaciousgardens and grounds, which all foreigners may inspect. I go to
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