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Notícia de 14 de Fevereiro de 1844 publicada no jornal “Friend of China”
“Capt Kelly of the Isabella Robertson was landing at Macau, ¼ mile from the Bar Fort, with three treasure boxes containing $7,440, when passing pirates threw fireworks into his boat. The pirates boarded in the confusion and Kelly and his Lascars jumped overboard. The pirates then took to the oars and escaped in the Isabella Robertson’s own boat with the money. Kelly had anchored Isabella Robertson in Taipa roads. The voyage to Macau from the roads by small boat is too long to go unarmed.”
Fico na dúvida se o nome do navio era «Isabella Robertson» (1) ou Isabella Robertson (2) seria uma passageira de 23 ou 24 anos, missionária protestante a caminho de Cantão. Um dos periódicos da mesma altura refere “boat of the Isabella Robertson”
“The New World”, Volume 8.June 1, 1844
Outro periódico “The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser,(1835-1869) 29 February 1844”, relatava o seguinte
“Macao. a oaring act of piracy, was perpetrated in Macao harbour, on the morning ot the stb Instant Captain Kelly, of the Isabella Robertson, was landing hi boat, with three boxes ot treasure, containing $ 7,440. When within quarter of a eUkws he was attacked by pirates. …”
(1) Existiu um navio registado como “Isabella Robertson” construído em 1818, em Coringa (Índia?) e vendido na América do Sul em 1820
“A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India”. Compilação de John Phipps “of the Master Attendant’s Office”, Calcutta., 1840.
https://books.google.pt/books?id=SpleAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=Isabella+Robertson+
(2) Isabella Robertson (1820 ou 1821 – desconhece-se a data da morte) casada com o missionário protestante, Dyer Ball (1796 – 1866 em Cantão).
Dyer Ball foi missionário da «American Home Missionary Society» desde 1833, ordenou-se em 1831. Destacado para a China passou primeiro por Singapura onde estuda chinês. Em 1841 devido à doença da 1.ª mulher, parte para Macau e em 1845 para Hong Kong, onde a mulher falece. Muda-se para Cantão em 1845 e casa com Isabella Robertson, missionária escocesa, em 26 de Fevereiro de 1846. (3)
O único filho do casal, Rev. Dyer Ball and Isabella Robertson, James Dyer Ball – 波乃耶 (Cantão 1847 – Londres 1919) (4) nasceu em Cantão, era sinólogo, autor de vários livros sobre a cultura, língua e os dialectos chineses (autor dum sistema de romanização do cantonense). Trabalhou como professor e intérprete nos tribunais em Hong Kong durante 35 anos (reformou-se em 1909) e é o autor do livro “Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth”, publicado em 1905, de onde tenho retirado, por várias vezes, descrições feito pelo autor da história e dos sítios de Macau. (4)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyer_Ball
(3) Ver biografia mais pormenorizada do missionário Dyer Ball, em
http://www.newenglandballproject.com/g3/p3628.htm
(4) Anteriores referências em:
https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/tag/j-dyer-ball/
https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/leitura-macao-the-holy-city-the-gem-of-the-orient-earth/
BALL, J. Dyer – Macao: The Holy City; The Gem of Orient Earth. Printed by The China Baptist Publication Society, Canton, 1905, 83 p.
O livro está digitalizado pelo “Internet Archive“, em 2007 e poderá consultá-lo em:
http://archive.org/details/macaoholycitygem00ballrich
Mais dois “slides” digitalizados da colecção “MACAU COLOR SLIDES – KODAK EASTMAN COLOR)”comprado em finais da década de 60 (século XX), se não me engano , na Foto PRINCESA (1)
O Largo do Senado já sem a estátua do Coronel Nicolau Mesquita (após 1966)
O Largo Senado começa na Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, em frente do edifício do antigo Paços do Concelho (Leal Senado) e termina no Largo de S. Domingos, junto da Travessa de S. Domingos.
Avenida Almeida Ribeiro cruzamento com a Avenida da Praia Grande e um bocado da Avenida do Infante D. Henrique
“Of late years Macao after a period of stagnation has been much improved by new roads laid out over the Campo and about the hills. A grand new avenue to cost $ 300,000 and to lead in direct line from the Inner Harbour opposite the Steamboat Company’s wharf to the Praya Grande, was mooted some years since; but the money has been spent on other improvements.”
BALL, J. Dyer – Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth, 1905.
Em 2 de Setembro de 1913 foi designada pelo nome de «Avenida Almeida Ribeiro», a nova Avenida do Bazar. A parte, a poente do Largo do Senado foi inaugurada em 1915. O último troço, a parte que ligou à Praia Grande, só teve o projecto aprovado em 16-10-1918, pelo que só posteriormente é que foi construída, após demolições do pavilhão que existia em frente ao Leal Senado e da casa do rico comerciante Lin Lian (então situada no cruzamento da Av. de Almeida Ribeiro com a Rua da Praia) e expropriações de vários prédios (por 77. 360 patacas; P. P. 82) do Largo de Senado, Travessa do Roquete, Rua da Sé e Pátio da Sé (aprovado por P.P.18 de 23-01-1919).
GOMES, Luís G. – Efemérides da História de Macau, 1954
SILVA, Beatriz Basto da – Cronologia da História de Macau, Volume 4, 1997).
TEIXEIRA, Pe M. – Toponímia de Macau, 1997
(1) Ver anteriores slides desta colecção em
https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/category/artes/
Continuação na apresentação dos conjuntos referidos em (1): «Conjunto de 6 chávenas + pires de café – património histórico de Macau». Hoje, o referente ao «Pagode de Kun Iam”
Copo – «Pagode de Kun Iam», na embalagem de esferovite, com plástico
Copo de forma cilíndrica: 5 cm de diâmetro e 5,2 cm de altura
(asa lateral: 2 cm)
Pires – diâmetro 12, 5 cm
(base: 7, 5 cm)
“THE MONGHA TEMPLE – This is a historically interesting spot, as here the first treaty between the United States and China was signed on the 3rd of July 1844; and also here in 1849 the head and arm of Governor Amaral were hidden in ashes, after he had been massacred at the Barrier by the Chinese. This temple H at a little distance along the lane that is at the back of the New Protestant Cemetery. It has a blank wall at each side. Entering the garden, one finds oneself in a large open space, behind which are the several buildings composing the temple. In these buildings are to be found the Three Precious Buddhas, a goddess riding on an elephant and other idols. Chinese frescoes, some in relief, adorn the place:one of them representing The Fat Buddha with a pack of boys playing with and teasing him, though such a god, the personification of good-nature, is evidently too good-natured to be teased. A garden is attached to the place, and in it there is some curiously ornamented tiling, the figures, &c., being in high relief; but which is, however in rather a dilapidated condition.”
(Retirado de “Macao, The Holy City; The Gem of the Orient Earth, de J. Dyer Ball, 1905, 83 p.)
(1) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/conjunto-de-6-chavenas-pires-de-cafe-patrimonio-historico-de-macau/
Foi em 2 de Setembro de 1913, designada pelo nome de «Avenida Almeida Ribeiro» (1) a nova Avenida do Bazar (2). De facto, a Avenida foi feita e aberta por partes. O último troço, a ligação da já designada Av. Almeida Ribeiro à Praia Grande, só teve o projecto aprovado em 16-10-1918, pelo Conselho Técnico das Obras Públicas, pelo que só posteriormente é que foi construída e concluída, em 1919 (?) (3) (4)
POSTAL – AVENIDA ALMEIDA RIBEIRO – 1986
Copyright Dept. of Tourism (D. S. T.) MACAU – 5000 – 86 – 12
Impresso na Gráfica de Macau Lda.
NOTA: Já em 1905 J. Dyer Ball (“Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth”) (5) referia ao projecto da construção desta “avenida”
“Of late years Macao after a period of stagnation has been much improved by new roads laid out over the Campo and about the hills. A grand new avenue to cost $ 300,000 and to lead in direct line from the Inner Harbour opposite the Steamboat Company’s wharf to the Praya Grande, was mooted some years since; but the money has been spent on other improvements.”
POSTAL – AVENIDA ALMEIDA RIBEIRO BY NIGHT- 1986
Copyright Dept. of Tourism (D. S. T.) MACAU – 5000 – 86 – 12
Impresso na Gráfica de Macau Lda.
(1) “Porque tem esse nome? Pura e simplesmente porque esse homem (Artur Rodrigues de Almeida Ribeiro), quando ministro das colónias (1913-1914) sancionou a verba para a expropriação das casas para a abertura da avenida. Apenas isto: uma penada autorizando uma verba“ (TEIXEIRA, P. Manuel – Toponímia de Macau, Vol. II, 1997).
(2) Arquivo Histórico de Macau – F. A. C. P. n.º 329 – S-N.
O Padre Teixeira dá a inauguração em 1915 na parte a poente do Largo do Senado. Nesse mesmo ano, a 7 de Abril de 1915, já havia um projecto de iluminação eléctrica para a Avenida.
(3) SILVA, Beatriz Basto da – Cronologia da História de Macau, Vol. 4, 1997.
(4) “1918 – Mais um troço da Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro rasgado. Para tanto, foi demolido um pavilhão que existia em frente ao Leal Senado e a casa do rico comerciante Lin Lian, então situada no cruzamento da Av. de Almeida Ribeiro com a Rua da Praia Grande.“ (GOMES, Luís G. – Efemérides da História de Macau, 1954.)
“23-01-1919 – Aprovado por P.P.18, desta data, o projecto de expropriação para conclusão da Av. Almeida Ribeiro e a sua ligação com a Praia Grande (77 360 patacas; P.P. 82). Expropriação de vários prédios do Largo de Senado, Travessa do Roquete, Rua da Sé e Pátio da Sé, zona sensível, cenário dos primeiros tempos de Macau” (Arquivo Histórico de Macau – F. A. C. P. n.º 172 – S-E).
(5) http://www.archive.org/stream/macaoholycitygem00ballrich/macaoholycitygem00ballrich_djvu.txt
Referências anteriores desta Avenida:
https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/tag/avenida-almeida-ribeiro/
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“SOUVENIR DE MACAU”
“A MONTANHA DA GUIA E O FAROL” (à esquerda, em primeiro plano, a casa “Silva Mendes”)
“THE GUIA FORT
The Guia Fort is one of the most conspicuous objects in a landscape whore nearly very thing seeins conspicuous. lt crowns the Guia Hill and is approached by a zig-zag path from the Gap. Within its enclosures is an old chapel, containing old graves and opened once a year when a proces sion ascends to it. The lighthouse is also within the walls of this fort, The light is a revolving one going by clock- work, the works being wound up by two convicts, who have a cell for their incarceraton within the fort. The Guia Fort was built in A. D. 1637 and the lighthouse in 1865.There is a small chapel in the Guia Fort the ermida da nossa senhora da Guia, or Neves.”(2)
O Farol da Guia foi custeada pela comunidade estrangeira de Macau tendo à testa o comerciante H. D. Margesson que tinha a sua firma na Rua Central n.º 17. Construído sob a direcção do governador José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral, sendo o hábil macaense, Carlos Vicente da Rocha, o autor do engenhoso maquinismo que funcionava com um candeeiro de petróleo e acendeu-se pela primeira vez a 24 de Setembro de 1865. (3)
“PRAIA DA GUIA” (em primeiro plano, a rua empedrada que dava acesso ao Hospital Militar Sam Januário)
Ampliação do mapa de 1921, anteriormente publicado (4)
Localização da Praia da Guia (C)
Outros pontos de referência no mapa: n.º 19 – Fortaleza de S. Paulo do Monte; n.º 20 – Jardim de S. Francisco; n.º 21 – Grémio Militar; n.º 22- Quartel de S. Francisco;
n.º 23: Observatório Meteorológico; n.º 24 – Farol/Fortaleza da Guia;
n.º 25: reservatório de água n.º 26: Jardim da Flora;
n.º 27: Quartel e Monumento da Vitória;
n.º 29 – Monumento e Avenida de Vasco da Gama; n.º 30 – Cemitério de S. Miguel;
n.º 31 – Cemitério dos Parses.
(1) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/category/artes/
(2) BALL, J. Dyer – Macao the Holy City: the gem of the Orient Earth.1905.
(3) TEIXEIRA, P. Manuel – Toponímia de Macau, Vol I, 1997.
(4) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/leitura-tellurolo-gie-et-climatolo-gie-medicales-de-macao/
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ESTRADA DO HOSPITAL MILITAR
“Military Hospital
From forts it is an easy transition to the Military Hospital of San Janario, which, erected in 1873, is built on a most commanding and healthy site fronting the sea. It is on the slope of the hill, just below the old fort of San Joao and just above the San Francisco Barracks, being one of the first objects that the visitor to Macao sees from the deck of the steamer. It is named after the Viscount S. Januario, a former Governor of the Colony, during whose term of office it was built, the former military hospital being in the old Convent of San Augustino. The site was that of an old gunpowder manufactory. The model for the construction of the building was the Hospital of San Raphael in Belgium.
It cost $38, 500, and covers 75 metres by 34. The building consists of a main body facing the sea with several wings running back from it. In the front are the Entrance Hall, the porter’s Lodge, the Quarters for the Chief Hospital Attendant and his Assistant, and the stairs to the Secretary’s Office in the upper story. In the Northeast part there are apartments for the Physician, the Chaplain, a room containing surgical instruments, the Dispensary, and the ChapeL while in the South-west portion of the building there are Quarters for the Officers, Bath-rooms, and the Linen Stores. The upper storey contains the Committee Room, Secretary’s Office, and the Director’s Office. The wings contain Surgical and other wards for Sergeants and Reserved Ward, Accountant’s Quarters, and a Hall for Surgical Operations, Cells, and Quarters for Military Servants.
The Mortuary, Room for Post Mortem Examinations and Room for the Collection of Soiled Linen are in a separate building some four or five metres distant from the main building and still further distant in the same direction is the Guard House. There is a garden to the South-west for the use of convalescents and there is also a tower for an Observatory. (2)
O HOSPITAL MILITAR
“Tivemos ocasião de observar o inteligente aproveitamento das ruínas da muralha, para consolidar os vastos taludes que limitam a esplanada e as suas estradas que circundam o outeiro. Estes taludes também estão recobertos por uma vegetação própria para dar coesão às terras, e cortados por sulcos convenientemente dispostos para o escoamento das águas, de modo que a perfeição da obra não tem nada a temer da impetuosidade das chuvas. Do alto da esplanada descobre-se uma das vistas mais extensas e formosas de que é possível gozar em Macau” (3)
(1) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/category/artes/
(2) BALL, J. Dyer – Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth, 1905
(3) Parte do artigo de Henrique Carvalho na Gazetta de Macau e Timor in TEIXEIRA, P. Manuel – Toponímia de Macau, Vol II, 1997.
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“SOUVENIR DE MACAU”
RUA DE S. LOURENÇO
(à direita, as escadas para a Igreja de S. Lourenço e o poço que foi entulhado; à esquerda, o Instituto Salesiano)
“ST LAWRENCE
The next largest district in the City is called Bairo de St. Lourenco. This church of San Lourenco, it is stated, may have been rebuilt in A. D. 1618. and within the last few years again as the roof fell in a few years ago. It is a large church, with broad stone steps leading up to it, being on a higher level than the road below. A picture of the saint is behind the high altar with a crown and dove descending from heaven on him. Two madonnas, with swords sticking in their breasts, and other images and altars abound. There are two towers to it: one containing a clock and the other a peel of three bells.” (2)
“A data de 1618 foi dada em primeira mão por Ljungsted mas há um documento de 1576, que diz que S. Lourenço era já igreja paroquial nesse ano e, portanto antes de Filipe II (de Espanha que viria a ser Filipe I em Portugal em 1580) (3)
RUA DE S. LOURENÇO
(à esquerda, o muro da Igreja de S. Lourenço e o poço)
“A Rua de S. Lourenço começa na Rua da Imprensa Nacional, ao lado da Rua da Prata, contorna a Igreja e a residência paroquial de S. Lourenço e vai terminar na Rua Central ao cimo da Travessa do Paiva.
A Rua de S. Lourenço tomou o seu nome da Igreja de S. Lourenço que ali fica. Os chineses chama-lhe Fong Son T’ ong Kai (Rua da Igreja do Vento Favorável)” (3)
(1) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/?s=souvenir+de+macau
(2) BALL, J. Dyer – Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth, 1905.
(3) TEIXEIRA, P. Manuel – Toponímia de Macau, Vol. I, 1997.
Referências anteriores à Igreja de S. Lourenço, ver em:
https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/tag/igreja-de-s-lourenco/
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“SOUVENIR DE MACAU”
com as legendas originais, nenhuma das duas, “bem legendadas”
UM ASPECTO DA GRUTA DE CAMÕES
(entrada do jardim, «Casa Gardens»)
“It is situated in the Casa Gardens which are entered by a gateway in the corner of the Plaza de Camoens. On entering, a small garden is seen in front of a large house; but hearing off to the right instead of going to the house and descending some steps one enters a large garden with many broad paths leading in different directions under umbrageous trees, while many ferns grow in the rocks, great masses of which are piled about in certain parts in nature’s wild confusion. The garden until recently was private property but a few years sime the Portuguese Government bought it from its owner for $35,000. Since its purchase a hand-stand has been erected and a fountain put up, the paths ivoemented (though they still retain their slipperyness as in other days) and ornamental walks and vases and borders made at certain places of little cubes or chips of white and red stone which have a somewhat bright and pleasing effect.
PRAÇA DE CAMÕES
(interior do jardim de Camões)
Fortunately the Government has had the good taste not to carry this ornamentation to too great an extent and many parts of the garden are delicious in their wild condition. In one on two places, especially in one corner of the garden, gigantic boulders are piled one on the top of the other and a banian is perched on the topmost, while it sends its roots down in a perfect network over the masses of rocks on their way to mother earth, for the sustenance which the unique position of the tree prevents it from absorbing otherwise.
On one of the mass of rocks thrown together in wild confusion was a small terrace where one might sit and view the landscape o’er. A flight of steps led up to it; but it has now been removed. A circular building with a slit through its roof at one side of the garden overlooking Inner Harbour will also attract attention. It was built for Laperouse and in it the scientific officers of his squadron, the Astrolabe and Boussole, made astronomical observations during the stay of those vessels in the Taipa in January 1787.” (3)
(1) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/macau-de-1910-souvenir-de-macau-i/
(2) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/macau-de-1910-souvenir-de-macau-ii/
(3) BALL, J. Dyer – Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth, 1905
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“SOUVENIR DE MACAU”
PRAIA GRANDE
“One of the most enchanting scenes in Macao is that of this beautiful bay, quiet and graceful sweep of sea wall and rows of houses rising up the gentle slopes and the ancient forts and modern public buildings dotted here and there, while behind all rise the Mountains of Lappa and to the right those beyond the Barrier. All descriptions are imperfect; some fail from an attempt to liken this beautiful little gem with another world-renowned spot, the Bay of Naples.” (2)
O PALÁCIO DAS REPARTIÇÕES
“About the centre of the Praya Grande is situated the building now occupied as Government Offices. It is one of the finest and largest buildings on the Praya Grande; and was for many years the residence of the Governors. Sr. Roza transferred his gubernatorial dwelling to the fine Cercal Palace, further along, which is now the Government House of Macao; and the Judicial Department and that of the Junta de Tazenda were moved into the former head-quarters of the Governor. As sufficient space room for the department of the Procurator of Chinese Affairs was found in this same building, it was moved from its old office, a house belonging to the old convent of Santa Clara.” (2)
O PALÁCIO DO GOVERNO
“The Governor’s town residence is on the Praya Grande and is a fine building. One of the most striking features about the public buildings in Macao is the clean state in which they are kept, affording often a striking contrast to those in Hongkong: it is a pleasure to the eye to rest on the former. The Chinese even note the difference and animadvert on those in Hongkong. This building was bought from the Baron do Cercal” (2)
(1) https://nenotavaiconta.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/macau-de-1910-souvenir-de-macau-i/
(2) BALL, J. Dyer – Macao: the Holy City, the Gem of the Orient Earth, 1905.
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