of mercantile morality and decorum; when opportunities presented themselves the extirp. Alora of piracy became pirates in their torn, and monks with absolution in their pockets were easily found to allay the remorses of repentant Consciences whenever the adventurers returned from their marauding expeditions, Faculty of pardon has always been the greatest incentive in crime. In Catholic. Nephelococcygia the Lutheran doctrine of peces fortiter was prac tised with a zest by the merchants of that sublime city, the consequence being that no European settlement on the face of the globe has earned more disreputable name for its commercial malpractices and immoral doings than this ancient emporium of Portuguese trade in the Far East. Mecaulay's lines describing The Nephelococcygia of the past, fit this modern en porim to a point:"Without flying to Nephelococcygia, or to the Court of Queen Mab, we can meet with sharpers, bullies, hard-hearted impadent debauchees, and women' worthy of such paramours."
The trade of Nephelococcygia was generally carried out with Malacca, Goa, Kwangtung and one ports in Japan. Occasionally a fleet of ship would come, from Lisbon, laden with convicts, friars and adventurers, who were as void of capital as they were endowed, with a superabundance of courage and martial, ardour. The friars quietly settled at their monasteries, the convicts were mostly set at liberty in Nephelo exccygia to do as they pleased and to earn their liveinnd as.seamen or soldiers; the adven- turers took to merchandizing along the coasts of China and Japan. J.de Bartos in his "Decades" relates many an incident connected with these early traflickers of Nephelococcygis, which are, in dramatic interest and novelty, quite up to the Irve of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice." Many a Lasitanian Shylock were to be seen and Adaired is that city, which judging. by its rampant conniercial misdeeds, might not impro perly, have been styled the emporium of Usury. Andes Pinto has devoted several chapters of his * Peregrinations to describe the style of trade his contemporaries generally indulged in. In enfunerating the class of male passengers which generally came out in the Portuguese guieats and ships of war, be mentions description an beings who plied on board a profession which is absolutely unmentionable in the English language. Pinto calls them by their proper Portuguese appellation, and makes no apology for the introduction of such heroes in Nephelococcygia.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 188.
vulgd Nephelococcygia, is certainly vouched for by history; but the general mass of the people was very far from attaining is the sublime or the heroic, and the mercantile classes in particular were sadly steeped in usury and other commercial malpractices.
sea without shelter, but if there were it is quite possible some is then have been "narrow scapes" which are never entered in Ing books as such, nor mentioned officially in that light. ld residents in, China and the Strait settle- techisember that in the year 1867 The next period of commercial-development Writich quatuor with all hands d'appeared in Nephecoloccygis may be styled the Lorche in the China Sea-south cod-and niso that epoch. A swarm of petty traders sprang up toothing was ever known about her. Then again carry the contraband of opium into Chinese in other waters we have another small cral territory. The lorches were Chinese junks the Atlanta, with all hands-which disappeared flying the Portuguese ensign, commanded and in a supposed, hurricane near the Azores. To equipped by Nephelococcygians, and armed in her may be added the Euridice in the English the same style as the Chinese trading vessels. Channel-capsized in a squall, and also in squall MS-Captain with about 500 of They usually proceeded to Singapore, Batavia, or some Indian port to ship opium, and brought her crew. This last ship laid down and filled it to Nephelococcygia; there the article as often herself from a want of sufficient freeboard The Euridice, from nearly the same cause-main changed hands as its price, rose and fell on the market, and on receipt of orders from Chinese leck parts open-which reduced her freeboard., as during typhoons, the greatest danger is that Importers on the mainland it was re-shipped
from swamping-from the futaidably high scas- to the coast. There were no revenue cruisers then to impede the progress of these amuggling filling the decks in successive charges before the operations, the result being that all the citizens of high bulwarks of the Wasp class of vessels will Nephelococcygia, high officials as well as menials, permit the water to run off-a very contmon traded in the noxious drug. It is amusing experience in all ships with high bulwarks it is probable that a time will come with to hear the Portuguese blame the English for having introduced opium into China, when the same furre Hoard of Admiralty to con- first introducers of the article were the Portuguese struct their gunboats with central citadels themselves. The forches often engaged desperate by which the engine and boiler rooms will be native pirates on the China coast, but owing to securely enclosed, and thus two-thirds of the their superior artillery, they generally came off opes and dangerous well deck space made proof against overwhelming botics of water. If the victorious from the contest, bringing, in tow the captured junks to Nephelococcygia, where present First Lord, would read over the highly the captors were rewarded by the local mandarins interesting and instructive records of the East India Company's fleets a hundred years ago- for their bravery, and all their misdeeds as
during their experiences if cyclones in the confamed smugglers were forgiven...
Many stories are current in connection with Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, be would there find something to warn him against the great these adventurous forcha masters. It is said that they were so undaunted at sea that risks of open decks and low freeboards or, not to the Chinese trading junks invariably engaged go so far back as that, to examine and study the convoys in experiences and the narrow escape of the their services as escorts" or
coast: Many
an Messaracies Maritimes steamer Atelbourne last- navigating along the encounter they had with the pirates, but they year off the Mauritius.
Their fame always came off triumphant. reached the coast of Japan, whither they often sailed, returning to Nephiclococcygia with valuable cargoes.
The master of one of these larchas, following the example set by his predecessors of the previous century, used to carry on a lively trade in Chinese boys and girls from Ningpo to Malacca and other parts in the Straits, of en, landing a few batches of them at Nephelococcygia, where the boys were pressed into domestic service and the girls invariably sold as concubines and paramours to the wealthy Lotharios who abounded in the settlement. Between 1800 and 1840 it was quite the fusion among the local rouds of that fair city to possess a brace of native heanties located somewhere in the suburbs of the town, or in the opposite island of Lapa,
Their offspring were mostly amalgamated with the Nephelococcygian society, and thus contributed on a vast scale to consolidate and perpetuate that original race of indescribable denizens which had its origin at the very commencement of the colony in 180. Lushanian setilers now and then arrived in the colony, but those who brought their families with them retired before any mixture or contamination could be effected with the young blood of Nephelococcygia, whereas the few bachelors who ever got married, and settled in the country had, in the course of a few generations, their stock so freely adulterated with that of the unholy mass with which they came in contact that it could not be further discriminated from it, and became its part and parcel
We now came to the booming period of Nephelococcygia's prosperity as an emporium of trade, the coolic emigration period. When British and foreign steam navigation appeared on the China coast, the Portuguese forcha traders vanished as if by enchantment. The legitimate commerce which began to be carried out under the axis of the Hiltish colony of Hongkong is said to have killed Portuguese enterprise in the Far East, and ruined all the future prospects of Nephelococcygis. What that enterprise had been, we are sufficiently acquainted with facts to ascertain. Shady concerns, of whatever description imaginable, ate doomed to annihilation at the very first gleam of sound principles, honest enterprise, or a spirit ofundinching morality, Ifthe Lusitanians had all the eastern trade in their hands, what prevented them from running steamers in the Far East and continue their noble beginnings It has been asserted that the port Nephelococcygis had been shoaling to such a considerable extent that no heavler vessels than forchas could ply in its waters. This amounts to a vulpine excuse. Traders and shipowners who held an emporium of trade for three centuries, and allowed it to shoal and become useless, assuredly displayed none of the characteristics inherent to that enterprising, far-seeing and all providing class of people who pride in the name of merchants. The
of
Pedro de Mendonça Aljubarrata, one of these heroes, was, towards the end of the sixteenth century, a leading merchant in that gem of the orient catth. His career bad commenced on board the Lusitanian galeot Dea Ventura, which inted from the Tagus-and-after a long winding-where-they-carried out the.Mosaic jujunction of Loccygia. A run-away from his parents' home in Simbal, the youth somehow managed to get him- self shipped and conveyed to the Far East empo rium. He was strangely attached to the monks, and was nicknamed by them the alter ego. During a local emente in the city, between Chinese and Nephelococcygians, Pedro earned a reputation for bravery in saving the life of a friar who had beon foremost in the medley, and who being corner. d by a stalwart Celestial, was nearly having his windpipe torn open when Pedro, forcing his way into the thickest of the fray, adroitly inserted his stout cane between the legs of the assailant and by giving them a sudden twist, brought the garroter scaseless to the grind. Friar facinthe rewarded his young deliverer with a large sum in Eycee silver, which Pedro turned to account in purchasing a trading junk in which he sailed for Nagasaki in quest of merchandise. After a few years of a very adventurous sea-faring life, during which he ran dangars undescribable, was pirated by pative reversand pirated them in his turn, kesettled down to a merchant's life in Nephelococcygia and carried on commercial transactions on a vast scale with the ships' captains and sailing merchants who occasionally landed at that port. His ostensible line of business was shipping Chinese and Japanese products to Malacca and Lisbon, but his principal, transactions partook of a quite different character. He revelled in usury. Friar Jacintho, his sleeping partner, contributed Enormous sums of money towards the carrying on of this highly lucrative trade, and the follow- ing was the modus operandi adopted by brave Pedro de Mendonça Aljubarrota, one of the leading lights among the merchants of Nephe- lucoccygia. Captains of ships leaving for Japan and the coast of China all traded and speculated in some way or other; Pedro furnished them with funds. His was an advance bank conducted on an exceedingly novel principle. He caused the borrower of his money to mortgage to him his future cargo at 40 per cent, above its invoice valuation, and to mortgage his ship as guarantee of payment. A supercargo of the usurer's own choice was placed on board the vessel. When she returned to port laden with merchandise, Pedro's captain-the borrower became his most zealous broker to find purchasers at a higher rate than the 40 per cent. Purr the invoice value; when the goods were sold, the usurer pocketed his principal and interest, and returned the mortgage, the borrower contenting himself with the surplus proceeds. When no sale was effected, the borrower invariably lost his ship and his cargo, which the lender generally forwarded on his own account to the consuming markets of Malacca, Goa or Lisbon, and con. signed them to his agents. The monks' alter go was thus a sure gainer in all his ventures. He realised 40 per cent. on the loan when the goods were sold at a profit to the borrower, and when they were not, the value of the confiscated hip paid for the difference. It might be asked why the trading shipowners did not carry out their ventures on their own account This
an impossibility in a place where money was scarce and where it was monopolised by a group of millionaires, among whom Pedro, backed by his friars, was, as we have fald, a prominent member. The captains were allowed power to carry contraband and to engage in all sorts of marauding expeditions, in which they did not let slip any favourable opportunity, with the invariable result that the Chinese junks trading along the coast became more filgiftened of these reckless' white pirates than of those of their own nomercial, failing
Occasionally the pirate-merchant, other Bources of adventure, would trade in human beings, No better witness can testify a this assertion than Femdo Mendes Pinto who was a contemporary of the sea-rovers of that period, and who in one of his "Peregrinations relates a harrowing seens between some of the Captured Chiucas and their remoncler captors The victims actually reproached the with arguments from the latter's own religion How is it," says Pinto, reproducing the former's words in his own faithful narrative, that you who profess such principles of unbounded charity and equality of all men before your God, can, apprehend, retain as your property and oppress men who will have nothing in common w16 you ?
was;
rante
Pinto's works are considered to be a very authentic record of many a shady Portuguese deed la Asia The Portuguess who scoff at Francis Davis and Llingstedt and other foreign authors for the atrocities related by them, would do wel to peruse their own national Kuthi
themselves that
Conqueals and coman
Far East was not
metal.
and of
the
consequence was the pseudo-traders of Nephelococcygia, "more unwilling then unable to carry on a legitimate trade at their port, gave up their forchas, and of slave-trading, with all its attendant train of betook themselves to the far shadier, pursuits malpractices and crimes. History shudders at their record.
(To be continued.).
H.M.S.WASE,
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The Board of Admiralty with regard to their latest policy in the construction of gunboats for the Royal Navy have ordered the building of nine fast vessels principally, to replace the obsolete ships of the same class now serving abroad, and of which we have long had a fair sample in the slow old tube so well known in Hongkong harbour and other ports along the China coast. The nine additional gunboats are said to be identical with vessels of the Pheasant class; but in order to provide for a certain four
margin of contingencies per cent ordered by the Board the new vessels will be constructed one foot broader than the Pheasant, which will give them about to tons greater displacement. The Admiralty decision on this matter was arrived at, so we are informed, in full view of the circumstances attending the sad loss of the Wasp, so far as those circumstances canfever be known. Having carefully considered, tay, the First Lord, all the particulars of the Wasp's design in comparison with, the corre sponding particulars for preceding classes of of gunboats, whose performance during a period 30 years have been found most satisfactory, the Board reached the conclusion that the Wasp was in all features affecting sesworthiness and preceded her, and that there is no reason far sperler to the gunboats which
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furnished for fuel cheaper than coal? In ceriain parts ofthe world as, for instance, near the Baku il fields the answer would undoubtedly be in the af mative., It is already in use there. But the problun to be solved is, whether it can be used, will success for ocean steamers. Efficiency, chespness and saving in storage ram are the points to be considered. Tris feld dime the best possible results have by no means been obtained from liquid fuel, and that when experiment, and inquiries, farless in number than the experiments made with coal as a fuel, are tried, that even more satisfactory results will be forthcoming. Be this as it may, it is more than probable that primolcum or its producty will take prominent places as fuel, and that it remains to be proved whether it will to any extent displace coal in ocean navigation. England has made a great her fields. She has thereby been able to furnish part of her success by means of her great col steamships with a cheap fuel. It would our petroleum fields offered the stein as advantages of cheap fuel to our own man facturers and that steamships might be buil in this country to use this cheap liquid fuel, At first the coal burning steamier consumerl daily enormous quantities of fuel. To-day the coal consumption of the ordinary freight stramer is comparatively small. The boilers employed in using liquid fuel are not specially designed for the purpose, and the inference is plain that, with specially designed boilers the cost of liquid fuel per diem may be materially reduced. The chances of success in this field are as great for our inventors as for any others. Our ship and marine engine builders have here a question which certainly does not seem AMARINE RISES OR GOODS, GA,
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Mr. N. Moalle, Amoy.
Messrs, Hedge & Cu, Foockow, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Shanghul, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Yokohama. Hongkong, 30th September, IHRÁ.
THE NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE EIGHTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will
be held at the Head Office, on WEDNESDAY, the 25th April, 1888, at HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK P.M., for the presentation of the Report of the Directors, and Accounts to the 31st December, 1887, the declaration of Dividends, the election of Directors and Auditors for the current year, and the transaction of any other business which may be transacted at an ordinary General Meeting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 12th to the 25th instant, both days inclusive,
By order of the Court of Directors.
ALEX. ROSS, Secretary.
Shanghai, 4th April, 1888.
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 216,
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
WOOSUNG LIGHTHOUSE.
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NOTICE is hereby given that, in consequences.
of changes that have taken place in the banks bounding the channel across the Woosing Outer Bar, the Woosung. Light has been altered
to show-
White between the bank of the Yangtze to the north-westward of the Lighthouse and S. 14° 30 W.
Green between S. 14°
20 W
White between S.
W
30! W. and S: 570
10 W, and S. 70°
Red between S. 70 50 W. and the left- (western) bank of the Woosung river, reg
The bearings are magnetic and from seaward." By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
A. M. BISBEE,
Coast Inspector.
Imperial Maritime Customs, Coast Inspector's Office.
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