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HONG KONG.
Facts About the
Colony.
Hong Kong is an island about 10 miles long and from 2 to 6% miles broad, with a total area of
Hồng Kong.
the world, with a water area of some 10 square miles. With the exception of liquor and tobacco the port is free, and 13 fortified. It possesses excellent locks, capa- ble of holding the largest vessels for the purposes of repair. There is a considerable ship repairing and construction industry. Ship-
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How the Name “Hong Kong
MANY PICTURESQUE LEGENDS.
Addressing a distinguished gathering at the Helena May In- stitute recently, Mr. R. B. Lindeell, of the Hong Kong Civil Service, a distinguished Chinese scholar, revealed some interesting detaile regarding the Chinese method of naming places. Hersuader will be found extracts from the speaker's fascinating observations
Hong Kong, said the speaker, had never loomad large in the pages of Chinese history and probably the name was unknown in China generally 100 years ago, Prior to the British decupation it was a desolate locality, Inhabited by a few fisher folk, who, when fish were scarce turned to piracy for a living. Most of the place names were derived either from some prominent feature of the landscape, or else from some common article of every day use suggested by the shape or appear ance of the locality.
Legend of the Seven Sisters.
North Point was known as Teat Tee Muf" or the "Seven Sisters." It denotes a legend to the effect that in the old village there were seven sisters who vowed that they would never marry. The youngest was even- tually either bribed or bullied into taking a husband, but on the eve of the wedding day, the whole seven drowned themselves in the village washing pool. North Paint was also connected with the old Dragon Boat festival, aince it is there that the boats parade on the occasion of the annual festi val. »
Etymology of "Hong Kong." Originally Hong Kong was not called by its present name: Long The island of Aplichau was in- before the British came it was terpreted as Duck's Tongue: known as "Kwan Tai Lo," which Island, Pokfulam was known as literally meant "the road like the the wood of a 100 paces. The waist of a skirt or petticoat." | name "Pak Lo Lam" was still Skirts were commonly worn by used by the Chinese lower classes, Chinese women in the old days owing to the great number, of especially on ceremonial occa-graves in that locality, as a sions, and it is supposed that the synonym for a place in which Western part of the Island was the wicked are assigned a habita- then encircled on the lower middle | tion after death. Mr. Lindsell re- levels by a single track, which marked that he once heard an suggested the waist of a petti-angry sampan woman clinch an coat, the Peak being regarded as argument with an opponent. by the jacket and the lower slopes as telling him to---"go to Pokfulam" the petticoat itself. The actual
A Chinese Prophecy? equivalent of the Chinese charac- ters is "Fragrant Lagoon, but. There were two rocks on the how the actual name arose is Island well-known to the Chinese; wrapped in mystery.
It was thought by some that the name came from the harbour at Aberdeen. But Aberdeen is also called Hong Kong Tsai, or Little Hong Kong" by the Chin- ese, and this seemed to prove the pre-existence of another greater Hong Kong. Another explanation was that the word Hong in this case this not mean fragrant at all,
but that it was the surname of a Chieftain. Another attempt to
The first is a squat monster on the hillside above and beyond the University which is known as the ravine frog's rock. The legend attaching thereto has that the frog has through the centuries crept up to his present position from a site by Telegraph Bay, that he is still climbing and that when he reaches Victoria. Peak, Hong Kong will disappear beneath the pea wapper not. that his progress is 30 slow that it will take
32 square miles; it lies close toping entered (1923) 26,701,120 explain the name had been based him many centuries yet to get to
Climate.
The island is broken in shape and mountainous, the highest point being Victoria Peak, which
Peak District is a favourite place
mutual passion. Here it is said that about. 80 years ago a British youth and a Chinese maid who Happy Valley.
had loved one another not too Dealing with Wanchai, Mr. wisely but too well, committed Lindsell said that the name mere-suicide. Chinese wives and maid- ly meant "Small Bay." Morrison ens still go to this rock to pray." Hill Gap Road was still known Dealing with Kowloon. Mr sometimes among the Chinese as Lindsell said that the name was the Cutting which... broke the derived from the old Chinese City Dragon's Back." To the Chinese of Nine Dragons (Kau Lung), every long spur running down Sung Wong Tol, in the locality is from a range of hills is a dragon. an historical spot, a prince of the
on the supposition that the har-the Peak, the question. of asking the mainland, being separated at
bour in the old days derived a the Director of Public Works to one point by a narrow strait i
special fragrance from the Indian (Lycemoon) not more than aj
spices which were unloaded and put him at once in chains would quarter-mile wide, and was first
transhipped here. "But this have to be seriously considered." "Another famous rock is one occupied by Great Britain in
theory seems far-fetched, and along and above Bowen Road, the January, 1841, and was formally is about. 1,820 feet high. The improbable, even though theyan Yuen Shel" or the rock of ceded by the Treaty of Nankin in
smells of Wanchai water front 1842; British Kowloon was subse of residence, and is reserved for had not then been fully develop quently acquired by the Peking Europears. The new Territories ed." Convention of 1860; and the New contain peaks from 1,800 to 8,000 Territories, being a peninsula infeet. The hot season lasts from the southern part of the Kwang- May to October. During the tung province, by a lease signed winter months, from November June 9, 1808. The whole colony to March, the climate is cooler, comprises an area of about 391 dries, and more invigorating. The square miles, with a population average daily maximim tempera- (1921) of 662,200 (1925, est:ture ranges from 87 degrees in 874,420). The non-Chinese resi-July to 68 degrees in February, dents, excluding naval and mili-and the average daily minimum tay, numbered about 16,200 temperature from 78 degrees in July to 56 degrees in February. A Free Port.
Vast Trade. The capital of the colony la Vic- Hong Kong is the centre of a toria, which lies along the north-vast trade in many kinds of pro- ern shore of the island, facing, duce, chiefly camphor, coal, cot the mainland; and between the tons, flour, "gunnies, hides, iron mainland and the city is the har- and steel goods, leather, matches, bour which is one of the finest in oils, rice, silks, sugar, tea and tin.
(1925, est. 16,500),
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As regarda Happy Valley, the Sung dynasty having once..spent Chinese only know it by the the night there.. Tim Sha Tsui "materialistic name of "Fau Mat meant pointed sand spit, Hung- Ter the place of galloping hom, red banks, and Yaumati, the horses." The old Chinese village place of oil-bearing millet. Tai of Wong Nal Chong merely meant koktaul, the spit in the shape of the Creek of Yellow Mud." The a large horn and Sham Shui Po. name was still appropriate after deep water reach, were names Ja really heavy rainstorm. which explained themselves: -
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