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養弟名胡細在伊堂兄胡順處撫養此童則或在伯從胡儀處或在堂兄 在框局趺死其母霍氏戊寅歲身亡遺下兄弟三人長名胡林在契根處撫 製香 督憲發來之童子姓胡名妹年七歲三水些人其愛阿木丁丑年
安里第三號門牌樓下 儀然後往大館報案其如何被賣之處未悉其詳 伊堂兄胡順住世間同 飯後伊自去伯父胡儀處三月十九日伊堂兄胡順因不見此童及伯父胡 順處今年三月十七伊堂兄胡順胡聚帶他去拜山及後則在胡聚處食飯
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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD JULY, 1880.
Enclosure B.
(Translation.)
Careful enquiry shows that the boy sent here
by order of His Excellency The Governor is of the surname Ú and valled Múr, 7 years of age. and a native of the Sam-shui District.
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father, Ú A-rÚN. was killed by a fall in the Sugar
Refinery in the ting-ch'au year (1877). His mother, of the surname Fox, died in the mo-yan
year (1878). There are three brothers left, the eldest of whom, called Ú A-LAM, was brought up
by his adoptive brother. The younger brother,
U SAI was brought up by a cousin called Ú SHUN.
The boy above mentioned used to live either with
his uncle UI or with his cousin Ú SHUN. In
the present year on the 17th day of the 3rd moon
(25th April, 1880) his cousins Ú SHAN and Ú
Tsui took the boy with them to sacrifice at the
tomb (of his father ?) and after that he went to
Ú Tsur's place and had his dinner with him.
After the dinner the boy went himself to his
uncle Ú I. On the 29th day of the 3rd moon
(7th May, 1880) his cousin U SHUN, finding that
both the boy and his uncle Ú I had disappeared,
went to the Police Station. As to how the boy was sold, no particulars are known. His cousin Ú Suun resides at Sám-shap-kián (Astor Buildings)
No. 3. Tung-on Lane, on the ground floor.
Translated by
(Signed) E. J. EITEL.
胡
27th May, 1880.
三月二十八日間人說差館有字標貼於是十九日胡亞順往報差館 同往架非園拜山十八日在堂兄胡亞聚處食晚飯後卽不見回迨至 伯父處或在堂兄處或在契媽處撫養不等因三月十七日兄弟數人 契媽名亞顔住三十間同安里第三號門牌樓下查胡亞妹向日或在 港又有堂兄胡亞順四十二歲在高基下街大章號番衣店僱工又有 不知去向胡妹有一兄一弟兄名亞林九歲弟名細妹五歲現均在 七歲三水縣人無母有一伯愛胡亞儀前在西營盤做鎮爲業今已 前由鬼門退回港之小子熱他自亞現實係熱年
Enclosure C.
(Translation.)
As to the boy who was lately brought back
from Amoy, I find that he calls himself
AU A-MUI. But I find now that he is in reality
Ú A-MŮ1, 7 years old, a native of Sam-shui, and has neither father nor mother. There is an uncle
Ú A-1 who was formerly maintaining himself as a locksmith at Sai-ying-p'ún. I know not where he is now. Ú A-MUI has one elder and one younger brother. The elder brother is called
A LAM, 9 years old. His younger brother is called SAI-MUI, 5 years old. Both are still in Hongkong. There is also a cousin Ú A-SHCN,
42 years old, an employé in the Tái-chéung foreign elothes (washerman's?) shop in Lower Gough Street. There is also an adoptive mother (step-
mother?) called A-NGAN who lives at Sám-shap-
kán (Astor buildings) at No. 3, Tung-on Lane, on the ground floor. I find that Ủ Ă-MCI was formerly either living with his uncle or with his cousin or with the adoptive mother (step-
mother?) and thus brought up. Unfortunately on the 17th day of the 3rd moon (25th April, 1880,) the brothers went to the Coffee Plantation (at West Point or at Wong-nai-ch'ung?) on the 18th day (26th April, 1880). The boy had his dinner in the evening with his cousin Ú Tsú after which he was never seen again. On the 28th