CHAPTER IX.

Ophthalmia.--Profusion of Flowers.--Inland Villages.--Educational Matters.--Public Amusements.--Maltese Carnival.--Italian Carnival. --Under English Rule.--No Direct Taxation.--Code of Laws.--A Summer Palace.--Governor-General Smyth.--San Antonio Gardens.-- Wages.--Oranges.--Life's Contrasts.--Swarming Beggars.--Social Problem.--Churches crowded with Riches.--Starving Population.--A Mexican Experience. 152