morning to night, silence and desolation now reign supreme.
Twice
a month small steamers belonging, to Chinese merchants at Singapore,
call at Jolo and Maimbung to deliver goods, and take away the shell and
other produce to Singapore. These steamers fly the English ensign, and
are officered by Englishmen ; but the business of the ship and cargo is
managed entirely by Chinamen.
There
is one other European living in Sooloo outside the Spanish walls,
Captain H. Schuck, a German, who has traded for many years there, and
now devotes his energies to planting cacao. Twice a year a German
man-of-war visits Sooloo on his behalf, and many English officers and
other visitors still retain a lively recollection of the hospitality of
this patriarchal establishment.
