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Show K() The City of Manila. I The city of Manila ha typical Eastern 1 1 W 'metropolis. It is on the cm, side of n ji. , wide bay, which furnishes a tolorabl6 B ' ' -anchorage, but not a secure place of ,, refuge for shipping. The city itself is I ' as is most Eastern centers of .trade, R, ' divided into a new and old town, the T 4 ' , latter being fortified with walls in H 'mediaeval stylo, and containing ware" V liouses, storehouses, offices and an enor H , v inous native population, while the new E L sJr "town, much better built, with edifice I j ( i more modern in style and construction, $ lies without the walls. A email stream' m v i, " "which duringthorainypeasonbecomcH a Eg i v'V?t mighty torrent, runs through the heart ? nJ of the town and divides the two eecHone. a , .-" The old town hao narrow Btreets, badly H ' " -pa"ed, reasonably filthy, as well provided gg with varieties of odors as Coleridge m t; ' lound tho city of Cologne, teeming with K m , ' "" ' ; East Indians of everv age, color and B 'i prnvioua condition of dirtiness, whose B j principal occupation seems to bo keop-m keop-m f 'ingout of the sun, smoking cigarettes i -and chewing betel nut Why they R & -should smoke under a blazing sun, with f ' steamy heat riling from every square 1 Hi - t -loot of the ground on which they tiead, U .j& ' 'is a mystery, but, probably, on the idea R , that tlioy are already as not as they can K ' , x "become, they puff incessantly on their OP ?' $,?'' -" -cigarette 8 and take life as 'easily as the I I . -climate will permit. In the inteivals of . 4 smoking they load and unload tho 1 ' -vessels, most of tho native population 4 finding its employment about the ship- i ing, while those not thus engaged have T all the occupation thev want at their f homes, in tho manufacture of the coarse I " . ' -goods known as Manila bagging or sack- S J ,( ing and in tho making of cigars, o ft f 4 ' which many millions are annually o-- I .' ported to China and India Ex. J Vjf - |