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TAINAN-FOO AND TAKOW-SWATOW
記瑞 Sui-kee
MALCAMPO & Co., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents
J. Malcampo Quioga (Amoy)
Ong Bian Hoat, signs per pro. E. Č. dos Santos
Lim Sion Peck
Tan Loo Tat
Iu i
Tong-héng.
MANNICH & Co., JULIUS, Merchants and
Commission Agents
Julius Mannich
Alexr. Turrian
Agency
Mannheim Reinsurance Company Transatlantic Marine Insce. Co.
MANSON (DAVID) MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Hon. Surgeon and Instructor-W.
Wykeham Myers, M.B., &c.
Committee-P. L. Warren, A. W. Bain,
Julius Mannich
Hon. Treasurers-Bain & Co.
MEHTA & CO., Merchants and Commission
Agents
D. C. Mehta
MYERS, W. WYKEHAM, M.B., C.M., &c., Medi-
cal Practitioner
OLLIA & Co., D. D., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents
D. D. Ollia
PILOT
S. P. Dalal
H. Vosteen
ROMAN CATHOLIC (DOMINICAN) MISSION
Rev. F. B. Herce, Takao
Rev. J. Clemente, Ban-kim-cheng Rev. F. Giner, Soa-lun
Rev. R. Colomer, Lo-chu-cheng Rev. J. Khanh, Tainanfoo
RUSSELL & Co., Merchants
D. Moncrieff Wright R. J. Hastings
Agencies
Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld. Reliance Marine Insurance Co., Ld. China Fire Insurance Company, Ld.
TAIT & Co., Merchants
Tsuah Gheeting, agent Agencies
Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Company China Merchants S. N. Company North China Insurance Company Java Sea and Fire Insurance Company Union Insurance Society of Canton Straits Insurance Company, Limited
TAKOW TUG COMPANY
Bain & Co., general manager
WRIGHT, D. MONCRIEFF, Merchant
SWATOW
Swatow, which was first thrown open to foreigners by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated at the mouth of the river Han, near the eastern border of the Kwangtung province, in lat. 23 deg. 20 min. 43 sec. N., and long. 116 deg. 39 min. 3 sec. E. It is the shipping port for the city of Cha'o-chow-fu, the seat of the local government, 35 miles inland, and San-Ho-Pa, forty miles farther up the river.
Swatow is built on the northern bank of the Han, which forms part of an alluvial plain through which the branches of the river flow. The shore on the opposite side is bold and striking, the hills stretching away to the coast and forming what is known to sea-going people as the "Cape of Good Hope;" Pagoda Hill rises at the opposite side; and in a direct line from this lies the large island of Namoa,
The first foreign trading depôt in this locality was inaugurated at Namoa, where the opium vessels used to anchor, but it was subsequently removed to Double Island, which is situated just inside the river and is four miles from Swatow. Foreigners here made themselves notorious in the early years of the settlement by the kidnapping of ooolies, and so strong was the feeling shown against them by the natives that no foreigners were safe far from Double Island, while they were strictly forbidden to enter Swatow, and it was not until 1861 that they could do so. In the country round Swatow the antipathy to foreigners was of much longer duration. The British Consul was held technically to reside at Cha'o-chow-fu, and subsequent to 1861 several ineffectual.
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