Mcall Mission
the largest Protestant mission in France; founded in 1871 by the Rev. Robert Whitaker McAll (1822-1893) and his wife. It possesses more than 40 stations (about 15 in Paris), and is supported by Protestant Christians of all denominations in Great Britain and the British colonies, and the United States. a MACAO (mä-kä'ō), a Portuguese settlement on the coast of China, on the W. part of the estuary of the Canton or Pearl river, Hong Kong being about 40 miles distant, on the opposite side of the same estuary; the trade, mostly transit, is in the hands of Chinese, opium being the most important article of commerce.
Camoens, in exile, here composed his "Lusiad." Pop. about 80,000.