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lxsidcs thme, there are usually t~vo or three large
st(3;~lu(m ill port (either one of the ' Xessagelies,' or an
E~lglisll Hang Kong 'liner,' or one running to Sings-
pmc aid Penang, or tile war sesxl of some foreign
power); 6;crtBer down the river are anchored sometimes
as many as twenty mere-hmtmcn, rno~t.1~ of five
to eiglit hunched tons b~vdcn and flying t.he flap of
either France or Germany.
There are in Saigon ve1y many Ilokls, or more
properly speaking cafi:~, at which the most of the
French residerits appear to he. These capts arc not
xsclupulou;31j- dean ; still oue may obtain a moclest room
and filir meals at rmonable chn~cs. The population-ten
tl~ousmd at a gues~onsista of Cocl~in
Cliinese, Chinese,
Xdabars, and Freilch bps,
civiliam, and a few Europmils of other nationalities.
Public aFJirs are adailmstereri by a Goveri~or ap-
poiutcd by the Emperor and sent. out from France,
aud assist~l by a kgk1ati1-e and Es~urutii-e Council.
The streets of Saigon are brond, md rnnc:tcia~~~ised
with brick (~~~l~iich makcs n wry disagreeable dust) ;
iu two of them, ~F'Iich ruu at right s11gIes to the river,
are stone caMls for t.he more conreuient loading and
uilloadiug of the emdl cargo hats of the coll~ltl~.
Tlie stmct \\-hich rum piixllcl a~~cl ~lcst to tlre liver
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