Excursion To Macao*, a Portuguese settlement, 40 miles south across the river's mouth. Palatial steamers, daily, in three hours. Hingkee's and Boa Vista on Praya Grande. This decaying old place offers a strange contrast to the energy displayed around it. It stands on a peninsula Heong shan island. Here are the Governor's House, on the Praya Grande, Senate House, barracks, gardens and some twenty low gaming houses (known by coloured lamps) licensed 170,000 dollars a year. Several Cathedrals, convents, theatre and college. Camoens was here in banishment and composed most of Lusiad about 1560; his garden, Gruta Camoens, is shown; Lighthouse, Pagoda and Bar Fort. English Consul.
in Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Capitals of the World, and Overland Guide to India, Persia and Far East (...) publicado em Londres em 1903.
* referência a uma excursão a Macau feita a partir de Hong Kong.
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