as well as a stone table. The table is all that aurvives at 'Macao to com- memorate the signing of the Treaty there, on July 3rd, 1844.
Thereafter, until the year 1000 when China granted to foreign powers the right of residence at Peking of their envoys, Macao remained the residence of the American Minister to China. An American naval hospital and office were also installed at Macao during this period. It is interesting to note that Commodore Perry assembled his squadron al Macao before proceeding to Japan to open up that country in the middle of the 19th century.
During these years numbers of American missionaries took refuge at Macao whenever persecution broke out in China, and at Macao they printed their books and magazines and lived in peace.
During the Taiping Rebellion in China large numbers of Chinese flock- ed into the little Portuguese colony, as they also sought shelter in Hongkong, and the growth of the Chinese popula- tion of Macao dales from those days. Shelter was not denied to the new- comers. Just as it has never been denied to refugees of all nationalities, From a modest total of 20,000, at the beginning of the 19th century, the population of Macao reached the total of 100,000 at the end of that century.
DR. SUN YAT-SEN
It is not generally known that it was through Macao thắt Dr. Sun Yat-sea passed on his way to Honolulu, as a young man, and on his return he also passed through Macao, Choi Hang, a village some 25 miles north of Macao, ·· was Sun Yat-sen's birthplace, but Macao was his second home. When he had to fly from the long arm of the law in China," for conspiracios against the Munchu Government of China, it was at Macao that he found refuge, while Portuguese friends shel- tered him and helped to get him out of the colony whenever conditions became too difficult,
After graduating from the Hongkong College of Medicine, Dr. Sun-Yat-sen offered his services to the Klang Wu Hospital at Macao, and he set up a private clinic as well. The regulations "In force did not provide for ̄practiseˇof medicine by any but graduates of Por- tuguese universities, but nevertheless the Macno authoritles closed an eye to the medical practice being exercised by young Dr. Sun Yat-sen at Mocao. They even permitted Dr. Cantlle to carry out operations, at Dr. Sun Yat- sen's request, at the Klang Wu Hos- pital in Macao. Nor was this the only case when physicians holding British degrees were permitted to practise in the Portuguese colony.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen did not limit him- self. to the practice of medicine, and eventually the articles written by him published in Macao newspapers be come embarrassing for the Portuguese authorities. Finding that the Chinese Government had sent agents to try and kidnap him, Dr. Sun left Macao. But he turned up in the Portuguese colony again and again.
The Boxer Rebellion in North China made conditions for foreigners difficult in South China, and among the schools that had to leave Canton was the then newly established Ling Nam Univer- sity. This institution set up its colleges in Macao, remaining there until the trouble in China ended.
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REVIVAL OF TRADE Macao had enjoyed a privileged position
almost three hundred years, but the establishment of Hong- kong and the opening up of the treaty ports in China brought about great changes in Macao's situation. By the middle of the 19th century the steel
Corner of the Macao Public Library.
Sino-Portuguese School bullt at Maceo in honour of Bir Robert Ho Tung.
Canosalan Orphanage for Chinese children.