ntly landed at Macao, and placed
in the care of a venerable and highly respectable Portuguese family, and
after having arranged the means of as regular a correspondence as could
be carried on in that country, where there are not quite so many
mail-coaches and post-offices as with us, she saw with tearful eyes the
whale-boat "shove off," containing in its stern-sheets Morton, a Chinese
custom-house mandarin, two Chinese pigs, a hind-quarter of Chinese beef,
a Chinese river pilot, and sundry baskets of Chinese fowls and
vegetables.

Macao is beautifully situated upon a small island, near the mouth of the
river Tigris, commanding a fine view towards the sea, and was, when I
had the fortune to visit it, very clean and neat in its streets and the
external condition of its houses--a circumstance the more remarkable, as
its inhabitants are Portuguese and Chinese, two of the dirtiest people
on the face of the earth: to these, of course, numerous other nations
and parts of nations may be added; and among them, a very large
proportion of the aristocratic and fastidious English, who prefer
spitting in their pocket-handkerchiefs instead of the fire-place or the
street; all the Spaniards; all the French in their houses, and food, and
furniture; all the Dutch in their persons; all the Russians in every
thing; nearly all the Irish and Scotch; and a very respectable modicum
of my beloved countrymen, the Yankees, together with the greater part of
the natives of the southern states, who, being nursed, brought up, and
associating with negro slaves from the cradle to the grave, _smell_
dirty, if they are not.

After an absence of about six weeks, Isabella one morning received a
letter from Canton, informing her that the ship would commence "working"
down the river that day, or, according to the date of the letter, two
days previous, and that she would be off Macao on the second or third
day from said date. Accordingly she made all necessary preparations for
another and much longer voyage, and after dinner walked down to the
water-side, accompanied by her Portuguese friends. They had been on the
look-out for nearly half an hour, when a large ship hove in sight,
evidently from Canton.

As she approached, steering apparently direct for the town, she suddenly
tacked and stood out to sea, or directly away from it. The party had
already made out with their glasses that the ship was indeed the
Albatross; but poor Isabella, who had seen, on her