Jan 1st Friday – today at Mr. W. P. Jones Macao.
As Mrs. Jones was receiving new years calls and we were unacquainted with
the people kept our room most of the day. I felt quite week from loss
of blood as my mouth bled forfusely all night. We did not succeed in stopping
it until about breakfast time this morning when Mrs. Jones applied some
burnt alum with laudanum and the hemorrhage stopped almost instantly.
2nd Saturday – this afternoon we, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Jones,
made a visit to bishop’s bay, a beautiful place. Near by is the
college of San Jose where some 60 or 70 boys and young men are being taught
and trained for padres. The place received its name from the former residents
there of a bishop near by is also a summer house, a fine retreat in hot
weather, shaded on all sides and often to the breeze. Ascending the hill
we had a fine view of the whole town. The steamer “Feiseen”
was coming into the outer harbor on our way home, passed some of the houses
occupied by the Canton missionaries when they fled for their lives during
the war at Canton. Arriving home Mr. Sheden, the former naval store keeper,
soon came in to spend a few days. The naval depot has lately been transferred
to Macao and is now under Mr. Jones’ superintendence. Mr. Sheden
returned home to his wife over land. He is a fine man and a Christina
and has always befriended mission and missionaries.
3rd Sunday – a grand “Te Deum” was sung at the cathedral
in honor of the birth of the prince of Portugal heir apparent to the thrown,
who was born November 2, 1863. After the Te Deum was concluded a national
solute was fired from several forts and in the evening a grand illuminations
of the praya.