narrow street below, is paid by subscription from the occupants of the street. An old Chinaman, of whom we purchased chess-men, advised us not to be away from our hotel too long, as there were many “two facee—no good pigeon-men”—in the crowd, who had no love for foreigners. At the time of this visit, I saw many of the celebrities about Canton; the remarkable and magnificent gardens of the old China millionaire _Howqua_, where artificial landscapes, cascades, and plants, trained in the exact image of all kinds of animals, are to be seen in perfection; old Curiosity street, with its costly jade-stone spectacles, &c., and by accident, the spot, where some young Englishmen, captured during the war, were taken to, and beheaded by the Chinese. The last of September, we were relieved by the arrival of the Susquehanna, when we ran down the river to Cum-sing-moon. As we approached the anchorage, we discovered the storeship Southampton, not long from Valparaiso. When she was about a thousand miles from Luzon, she picked up a boat, containing three men and a boy. When brought aboard, their long, black hair, high cheek-bones, and dusky complexion indicated a Malayan origin. All they could say was “_Sallie Baboo_” and they were most likely driven out to sea, from the group of that name, while passing with vegetables in their frail shallop, between the islands. A building having been rented at Macao, as an hospital for the sick and infirm of our squadron, the _Sallie Baboos_ were kept ashore there for some time. The boy, about twelve years old, evinced some sprightliness, and got hold of some sentences in English, but the confidence to speak a single word in our language, was a plant of the slowest possible growth with the older ones.