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crowd of persons booking procession
Carrying
at a
with banners &c, as
I observed the
with their hats off, and almost all the people kneeling, but, not
knowing
Catholic
thank this
ceremony, and entirely at
variance with my belief, I kept
covered.
A priest looked at me angrily and beckoned to me to
take
off my hat, to which
of course I paid no
attention. As I was walking behind the worshippers, a soldier came to
and spoke some language (I suppose Chinese) which
I do not understand,
at the same time beckoning
me to take off my
hat; I
removed it
for an
instant, and then replacing it
said "Causa?" which I knew,
the Portuguese word for "why?" or
for what cause? The Soldier
immediately seemed
to understand and
intimated to me
that I must
follow him which I did: Struve
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since heard it stated that the person who addressed
me was the Governor's
Aide-de-Camp; this,
of course, Struve
positively denies: though his appearance betrayed
intimations, which I was able to
recognize, of such rank:
However
this individual, whoever he
was, took
me
to where were
about
five or
six soldiers
with their officer, who told me to stop; I enquired for a person
who could speak English, and one of the Soldiers
spoken
to expressed a wish to