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Nossa Senhora da Annunciada. Malacca.
Kuala Lu-mpur,
A plain heavy silver chalice of local work
of the English period.
A pair of silver salvers, believed to be Dutch,
twelve inches square.
A pair of round dishes, Madras work,
probably presented to this church by the Dutch
in India, repousse, covered with figures of Indian
animals, the centre a snake, very curious.
Amongst its other treasures are the Dutch
bible, bearing date 1762, and the brass lectern
in the pulpit, centre engraved on both sides,
showing that it was given by Jan Crans, the
Dutch Governor in 1773, bearing the first verse
of St. John's Gospel in Dutch, probably engraved
by a German soldier in Batavia, as the wording
shows German influence. On the font lies, when
christenings take place, a shallow plate of silver
presented by a Dutch lady in 1668. This plate
bears the cross fleuri and four martlets which
appear also on her tombstone in Saint Paul's in
the arms of Juffrou Maria Bort, who married
Nicholas MuUer. There is also a very curious
brass font pedestal, exceedingly heavy, believed to
be Malay work. The design of this pedestal is
most beautifully proportioned. The fifty-foot span
of the flat roof is remarkable, the timber being
very fine originally and still perfectly sound. The
old-fashioned musicians' gallery still exists at the
west end. The reredos is modern but very successful
Florentine mosaic. The floor is full of tombstones,
removed, to preserve them, from the roofless
church on the hill. The church is always open
and its possessions are shown, for a small fee, to
visitors.
Leaving Christ Church and continuing along
between the river mouth and the hill, passing the
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and the new
harbour works out to sea, we reach the jetty. If it
be still standing (at this moment its fate is doubt-
ful) the view from the seaward end gives that
Ishii,
Screen in the possession of the Government
at Malacca. Period 1650.
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