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The wants to see of the sea for the Frest of hig lite is a "wee far noolvar edge." And he talks Hittle of the immediate sea; "his stories, which hold me spellbound over a Hngering mango or chee for hours after the meal, proper ja over, deal with ro
the! mote advertures-tigers. In South China hills, quarrah and hot nights In Indian ports. Inside anec- dotes of the North Sea in war-time, the pursuit of gold in Australia by one Weather-r-beaten Brown, the focensiónal" left rolief of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war, politics and the dog-ward ten dency of poor England, the rst voyage of an apprentice round the world in a sing-ship thirty years
Hong Kong, said the speaker, Point was also connected with the tago. Sometimes
comes closer and turns on typhoons had never loomed large in the old Dragon Boat festival, since it for pirates These things are so pages of Chinese history, and is there that the boats parade da common, they rarely find a new ear probably the name was unknown the occasion of the annual festi for their reception in the China in China generally 100 years ago. trade. Every island talks of one prior to the British occupation it typhoon until the next stops the
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Addressing a distinguished gathering at the Helena May In- stitute recently, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, of the Hong Kong Civil Servier,! a distinguished Chinese scholar, revealed some Interesting detalls regarding the Chinese method of naming places. Hereunder will be found extracts from the speaker's fascinating observations :——
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Mr Lindsell recited the legend pertaining to the festival. The Island of Aplichau was in- talk; every river-mouth echoes with was a desolate locality, inhabited
as Duck's Tongue the doings of pirates. One of the by a few fisher folk, who, when terpreted: most powerful trade unione in fish were scarce turned to piracy Island. Pokfulam was known as Most of the place the wood of a 100 paces. The China that land of perfect trade for a living. Junions-is the pirates "guild. But names were derived either from name "Pak Lo Lam was still
THE "HONGKONG EMPORIUM most of all the sisipper and the some prominent feature of the used by the Chinese lower classes,
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Etymology of "Hong Kong."
the wicked are assigned a habita- tion after death. Mr. Bladsell re- marked that he once heard an when he found her mother in the Originally Hong Kong was not angry sampan woman clinch an Parder. and Guthrie, who call-called by its present name! Longargument with an opponent by ed for carrota in Shangha! before the British came, it was telling him to-"go to Pokfulam."
and what was the tale of known as "Kwan Tai Lo," which Far-r-guson and the centipedeliterally meant the road like the
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Dealing with the names of the "One of the Most Unhealthy Spots In the World.” be about five hundred per cent waist of a skirt or petticoat." merchant sailors, I think. One Skirts were commonly worn by islands, he said Gap Rock was
Taken from an old book written by Mr. H. R. Fox Bourne and never really appreciates, the great. Chinese women in the old days called 'Mun Mel Chau,
ceremonial occa- may possibly mean mosquito's! ness of Scotland until one goes to especially on
sions, and it. is supposed that the tail island or mosquito's head. published in the year 1859, entitled "The Story Of Our Colonies," to Western part of the Island was Lan Tau meant broken head and The "Chang-ahing" scorned touch so sophisticated a port as then encircled on the lower middle Cheung Chau meant long island, the following will serve to illustrate to the present day reader the Shanghai, but one evening at sunset levels by a single track, which The Dumb-sell Island was foreign, improvement which can come to a city within a short span of years. on a set of glazed crimson she past suggested the waist of a petti Stonecutters, or "Ngong. Shun
"Much of the trade by which ed the mouth of the Yangtze river. love that of the river, and there the acket and the lower slopes as upright junks, Chung Hue green Singapore is enriched is derived The perspective of the clouds fol coat, the Peak being regarded as Chau," was known as the isle of
The actual cont, and Tai Mo Shan, the hill from China, and passes through was a great feather of wine-coloured the petticoat itself. cloud rooted, as is scented in the equivalent of the Chinese charac- of the great mist, or the Great.
smallest of all! the colonies of Bun itself; the tip of the plume hung ters is "Fragrant Lagoon," but Cap Hill, the cap being the clouds. the little island of Hong Kong, the
arose is The river with how the actual name
Capsuímoon and Lyemoon were
Great Britain, The island con- drew into a low confusion of hills: wrapped in mystery.
most interesting names. The for- and Inic that lonfusion the sun sank down alive.
low over our mast,
gateway of the carp
island,
terizes the island-rock; "but its geological formation, and the perni- cleus climate to which it is exposed,
spots. in the world. renderit, one of the most unhealthy
This inhospitable little with an area of about 30 square miles, for centuries the haunt of Chinese pirates and smugglers, war ceded to Great Britain by China in 1842 as a free port for trade and a nuval station for the protection of British interests in Chinese waters. To it was added the small a peninsula of Kowloon in 1861. Its population, about 12,000 in 1842, was 29,507 in 1849, and 117471 in 1867: but of these only 1,644 were the Europeans, and 30,537 of native, unable or univilling to find homes on the barren shore, ved in boats in the rivers. The revenue
It was thought by some that mer could be either the gate alsts of a broken ridge of moun the name came from the harbour through which the water is suck-tainous hills at an average height We ran into a fog that night, and At Aberdeen. But Aberdeen is ed, or the gateway of, rushing of about 1,000 feet; but from this
Lyemoon meant the "Chang-shing rent her soul
the ridge and its spurs various ennica) and mine with cries of warning to also called Hong Kong Teal, or waters.
mountaina rise to the height of an apparently empty world. But Little Hong Kong" by the Chin-
A Chinese Prophecy. 1,500gr 2,000 feet above the son..
The Like the Great Shadow of a Chinese Temple the fog was like the curtain beese, and this seemed to prove the tween two acts, for, when at noon pre-existence of another greater
There were two rocks on the and are very precipitous. Upon the Sky.”
next day we shook ourselves clear Hong Kong Another explanation
ocean, Farti of it we were in northern seas, and was that the word Hong in this island well-known to the Chinese. greater part of the coast shelves
"The first is a squat monster on abruptly from the the great square-sailed grey junkelcase did not mean fragrant at all, thas travelled across our sight were but that it was the surname of the hillside above and beyond the cularly on the north face, of a new and more austere shape.
ravines, through which the sea Wei-hai-wei. that explain the name had been based revine frog's rock. The legend xccasionally bursts, or which serve The coast was clever, fercer and a Chieftain. Another attempt to University which is known as the are a few narrow valleys and deep more, scarred. British home from home, broke the on the supposition that the har attaching thereto has it that the as conduits for the mountain tor- outline of the cliffs, and we could bour in the old days derived a frog has through the centuries rents: but on the north side of the see the bulls of the herd at rest, the special fragrance from the Indian crept up to his present position island, especially where the town of of the Colony rose from £31,078 in dark formidable outlines of the apices which were unloaded and from a site by Telegraph Bay, China Squadron, and a mother-ship transhipped here.. "But this that he is still climbing and that
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her way.
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The old: Prays front which is now Des Voeux Road Central,
It was morning when the ship slid women. between me and the sea
Kong will disappear out from under the eaves of Hong have listened to the voices of travel of submarines with her frolicsome theory seems far-fetched, and when he reaches Victoria Peak,
though the Hong Kong Hong Kong is like the great ling salesmen on the subject of young. And at Wef-hal-wel, though shadow of Chinese temple upon modern drama rather than to the we did not put into harbour, a large improbable, even
number of passengers alighted. smells of Wanchai water front beneath the sky; a summit is nearly al-passing words of the sea.
80 slow that it will take ways ruled straight by a high criminally associated Ships with They were courtesy passengers, like had not then been fully develop not that
me a great company of the most ined."
him many centuries yet to get to horizontul mist, its slopes have the cheap omotions and cheap scent.
corrigible landlubbers, most un-j
Happy Valley.
the Peak, the question of asking! optimistic concavity of temples, and The "Chung-shing" carried only suitably dressed for a sea-journey.
Dealing with Wanchai, Mr. the Director of Public Works to only lack a titanic dragon and indigo and, by courtesy, me., She Finches. jays, little tentative flau- curled lion or two to make the was only smart in comparison with tits, nameless to me, smooth grey-Lindsell said that the name mere- put him at once in chains would temple suggestion complete, At some of the junks. And perhaps created dandies with scarletthroats, ly meant "Small Bay," Morrison have to be seriously considered," "Another famous rock is one night, an absurdly is Hong Kong in order to show herself to advan pigeons, a couple of sparrow-hawks Hill Gap Road was still known .tilted, it hosts its outline, for the tage, for the first two day's of heron and lambalike they had been sometimes among the Chinese as along and above Bowen Road, the lights of the Peak climb so high and voyage north she rolled snorting sitting for the last twenty-four "the Cutting which broke the Yan Yuen Shek" or the rock of the stars climb so low.
proudly up the rough ruts of a hoars in agitated rows upon our But it was morning when my plunging avenue of junks, Chinese deck and rigging. They trusted Dragon's Back." To the Chinese mutual passion, Here it is said little ship deftly extricated herself fishing junksy are like skeletona in me to an unexpected oxtent, though every long spur running down that about 80 years ago a British from the tangle of shadows and crinolines. Their tattered matting not to the point of cuting the crumbs from a range of bills is a dragon, youth and, as Chinese maid who
As regardy Happy Valley, the had loved one another ships in the harbour. Between the sails are sufened like fans with which I spread out. before them.
their Some of the Chinese sailors be Chinese only know it by the wisely but too well, committed tawny junks, the low grey Battle-bamboos; wreathed About
prayers, trayed their trust and caught one "materialistic name of "Pau Ma suicide. Chinese wives and maid- ships with decks like petrifed figures are red paper forests, the dark, rusty tramp struggling to catch the attention of or two. The seagulls laughed loud, the placs of galloping ens still go to this rock to pray."
Often these" junkeruucous, nautical daughter at this
horses." The old Chinese village ateamers, the hooded sanipuns on heedloss gods.
Dealing with Kowloon, Mr. which the Chinese water coolies were, tilted forward, stern high and innocent invasion. But the passen
gers knew what they were about. of Wong Nai Chong merely meant Lindsell said that the name was with their eats and flowers and bow awash, as though the vessel They alighted as one bird at Wei-"the Creek of Yellow Mud." The derived from the old Chinese City women and babies live-between Contemplated diving. They swung hai-wei.
name was still appropriate after of Nine Dragons (Kau Lung), this and that my little ship picked at anchor, jealously guarding their
Sung Wong Toi, in the locality is Victoria la built, the rocky ridge We reached the port of Chefoo a really heavy rainstorm. Hong Kong itself was Exile claims in the sea, cach claim
Legend of the Seven Sisters. an historical spot, a prince of the approaches close to the harbour:
only dim, but across the harbour the staked out by a hedge of flagged late on our sixth night. All next
North Point was known as Sung dynasty having once spent and it clouds were crystallised into balla bamboos floating upright. China, day, while enolies, dyed bright blue
road could be made to and loops of silver that blew about with hills dull red or dunes bleakly with indigo, piled into precariousTsat The Mui," or the "Seven the night there. Tim Sha Tsuithrough this ridge that a street or It denotes a legend to meant pointed sand spit, Hung-the straggling lines of build- among the gaunt hills of South white, ran by us to the west; there lighters the oozing sacks of our
the extend along eargo, the skipper and I explored the Sisters." was never a sign of life on the sordid and sun-stricken city of the effect that in the old village hom, red banks, and Yaumati, the Ings which When Hong Kong slipped over coast, and at night never a light. Chefoo.
who place of oil-bearing millet. Tai water's edge for nearly four miles. cannot bear to think that there were seven sisters the grey-glazed rim of the sea the. We passed a lighthouse on the third Chefeo still exists, a city baked and vowed that they would nevér koktsui, the spit in the shape of Here and there, on the tops of little ship-ahe.had a Chinese name, day; white and sophisticated. tenkedi in squalor. On every
names precipitous slopes of the mountains, ahall we call her the "Chang-aprang up in a primitive and there were two inevitable sights marry. The youngest was even a large horn and Sham Shui Po, some isolated hills, or along the
scattered houses have been tually either bribed or bullied deep water reach, were shing seemed all alone ke a dreambound world Could it be cruelty and churches. The men
structed; but rugged, broken, and guest in strange land; a great that men and not gods lived in beat the horses, the boys beat the into taking a husband, but on the which explained themselves.
The New Territory. abrupt precipices, with deep rocky company of remote islands stood such isolation? How the seu must dogs, the babies tortured the little eve of the wedding day, the whole about her and,, without welcome, count to them
flame-coloured lizards, that ran seven drowned themselves in the
Taun Wan, known as Hau Tei, ravines, must effectually prevent North "You an' him can have a' the sea about the walls. The streets, it seem- village washing pool.
or the place of the king crab was any contracted population from watched her pass, T had never been so much alone of the sea before, for me," said the Skipper, who is ed to me, were full of dark, carth
of historical interest as the place being able to provide efficiently for its own protection cleanliness, and The ways of the globe-trotter have from Dundee, and like most sailors, blackened, nnked bodies contorted
of the ancestral tomb of the Tang comfort. Hong Kong cannot be been too much my ways; too often believes that he wants to settle with anger and the power of making
family a very large clan in the said to possess any vegetation: a on shipe there have been men and down. He says rather prettily that anger felt. The churches looked on
decorously, feeling no doubt that divided. It is a proud and honour- New Territory., The Castle Peak few goats, with difficulty, and pas here was useful copy for endless able thing to be dead in China, and district was known as a military turage. A rugged beauty charac- sermoną, I was glad when the the choice between one mud house training depot or green mountain. "Chang-shing" went out of Chefoo and another is a very small choice. Un Long meant round valley Into the clean yellow sen.
Movement in the land was chiefly market town, and nearby was The Yellow Sea is really yellow provided by the salt-milla: Kam Tin, Tormerly known as the which seems wonderful to me. It'
liko merry-go-rounds. at upland fields, but later changed was yellower than probability would home faiz, they apan and to "awelt flowering fields." Fan-
ling meant Powder Hills,
China
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allow, so yellow and so matt in sur-
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face that a string of camels would span, lacking only the music and the colour and the merriment. nave seemed lesa aurprising on its Sometimes mudcaked babies ran
Tai Po had taken its name horizon than a junk. A pilot, full down, on to a mud beach to from the large arm or reach of of wheezy jocosity, came on board throw themselves down in the the sea, and Shatin meant sand and inserted the "Chang-ahing" golden wave caused by the "Chans fields. Pat Sin, a range of moun- Into the Pol-ho river. Two Chin- Shing" passing. In that wave the tains across from Taipo meant ose mad-forts, long proved futile by moored fishing boats stirred in the "eight genii." Nearby was British naval guns. In the Boxer easily; they were ke dragon-dies
stormy weather the figure of a woman clad and waving flags ap- pears by the pool and the sound or gongs can be heard.
rising, still keep up, the pretence asleep, their nets were stretched on the famous San Neung Tam or of guarding that narrow mouth, but quivering bamboos at the tops of the bride's pool where a bride the "Chang-shing" -ignored thom hindged masts."
was supposed to have perished, and began feeling her way up. # Once, as the fringes of the smoke It is said that even to-day in waterway which is like a puzzle that overhangs Tientsin began to founded on a timeless repetition of shut out the sun, there was music the last letter of the alphabet. The beside us, and I looked down into a earth was no lese golden than the Ashing boat on its way home from sen, the evening was an orgy of old sen. In the bow sat the musician, Mr. Lindsell finally dealt with gold. The villages were of yellowinging softly and vagrantly to B mud, the mud houses were eyeless, long-necked guitar: in the stern his the best known rock in the their crumbling doors gaped; there partner had unbraided his waist Colony, near Lion Rock. It is in was no colour but yellow in their long blue-black hair and combed it the exact shape of a woman with streets. There were graven every slowly with luxurious fingers A a baby on her back. The Chinese the woman whore, cones of mud varying in tawny little boy in a single blue call it by two names height and perfection of symmetry garment propelled the unhurried
turn" or the child according to the Importance of the boat in time to the song And then waiting and watching for her
Chusband a return, occupant. The cities of the living the city and the end of the little
on her back rock: and the cities of the dead were not Voyage invaded us.
was
by hewing.
connect.
con-
But it 1847 to £160,228 in 1866. derived its importance from the jealousy of the Chinese in exclud- Ing foreign trade from other ports: and now that a better policy has "bean established, commerce is pass-
ing from the unhealthy rock in the south to more attractive and more commodious places on the northern coast."
What a pity that this ancient dismal prophet is not alive, to-day to visit our beautiful Colony, and after viewing the architectural wonders of the Peak, to learn from our Chamber of Commerce that the imports of the Colony for the year 1919 were $90,651,708, and the Exports £103,042,934, and from the Sanitary Board that our health rate is higher than that of any other large city in the Fer Dast.
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