Historical notes relating to the Philippines.--From Cavite to Manila.--The river Pasig.--First impressions of the city.--Its inhabitants.--Tagales and Negritoes.--Preponderating influence of monks.--Visit to the four chief monasteries.--Conversation with an Augustine Monk.--Grammars and Dictionaries of the idioms chiefly in use in Manila.--Reception by the Governor-general of the Philippines.--Monument in honour of Magelhaens.--The "Calzada."--Cock-fighting.--"Fiestas Reales."--Causes of the languid trade with Europe hitherto.--Visit to the Cigar-manufactories.--Tobacco cultivation in Luzon and at the Havanna.--Abáca, or Manila hemp.--Excursion to the "Laguna de Bay."--A row on the river Pasig.--The village of Patero.-- Wild-duck breeding.--Sail on the Lagoon.--Plans for canalization.--Arrival at Los Baños.--Canoe-trip on the "enchanted sea."--Alligators.--Kalong Bats.--Gobernador and Gobernadorcillo.--The Poll-tax.--A hunt in the swamps of Calamba.--Padre Lorenzo.--Return to Manila.--The "Pebete."--The military Library.--The civil and military Hospital.-- Ecclesiastical processions.--Ave Maria.--Tagalian merriness.-- Condiman.--Lunatic Asylum.--Gigantic serpent thirty-two years old.--Departure.--Chinese pilots.--First glimpse of the coasts of the Celestial Empire.--The Lemmas Channel.--Arrival in Hong-kong Harbour. 281 CHAPTER XIV. HONG-KONG. Rapid increase of the colony of Victoria or Hong-kong.-- Disagreeables.--Public character.--The Comprador, or "factotum."--A Chinese fortune-teller.--Curiosity-stalls.--The To-stone.--Pictures on so-called "rice-paper."--Canton English.-- Notices on the Chinese language and mode of writing.-- Manufacture of ink.--Hospitality of German missionaries.--The custom of exposing and murdering female children.--Method of dwarfing the female foot.--Sir John Bowring.--Branch Institute of the Royal Asiatic Society.--An ecclesiastical dignitary on the study of natural sciences.--The Chinese in the East Indies.-- Green indigo or Lu-Kao.--Kind reception by German countrymen.-- Anthropometrical measurements.--Ramble to Little Hong-kong.-- Excursion to Canton on board H.M. gun-boat _Algerine_.--A day at the English head-quarters.--The Treaty of Tien-Tsin.--Visit to the Portuguese settlement of Macao.--Herr von Carlowitz.-- Camoens' Grotto.--Church for Protestants.--Pagoda Makok.--Dr. Kane.--Present position of the colony.--Slave-trade revived under the name of Chinese emigration.--Excursions round Macao.-- The Isthmus.--Chinese graves.--Praya Granite.--A Chinese physician.--Singing stones.--Departure.--Gutzlaff's Island.-- Voyage up the Yang-tse-Kiang.--Wusung.--Arrival at Shanghai. 355