INFORMATION.
HIRE of steam launch, Hakka boat or sampan for Deep Bay or Mirs Bay is by special arrangement for the trip.
Say from Saturday afternoon until Sunday night or early Monday morning.
According to the size of launch...$18.00 to $24.00 According to the size of Hakka boat... $8.00 to $12.00
Sampan ...$ 2.00 to $ 3.00
Native boats or punts $1.00 per day.
Hongkong coolies (chow allowance included) $ 1.00
There is an advantage in taking a Hongkong coolie as the natives are very independent and sometimes even impudent.
Where village boys are employed to carry ammunition and retrieve, 20 cents per day is usual with a cumshaw according to the bag, but anything that may be entrusted to their care should most certainly be under lock and key.
TIDES.
As space will not admit of a daily tide table the few remarks below may be useful, with the recommendation to obtain a copy of the tide tables for Singapore and Hongkong from the Harbour Office, price 50 cents.
Owing to the numerous passages through the many islands, especially to the westward of Hongkong, the tides or tidal currents are at times very unreliable and local experience in such cases becomes invaluable. As a rule it will be found safe to leave for Deep Bay on the first of the flood or at dead low water in Hongkong.
INTRODUCTION.
The map here introduced describes the most southern portion of the Sun On District situated in that part of the Kwangtung Province immediately adjacent to the British Crown Colony of Hongkong. The object with which it has been compiled is to encourage and assist the Hongkong resident, as well as the tourist, to become acquainted with a neighbourhood or district that, at no far distant date may assume a position of special interest and show unmistakable signs of a very rapid development.
Although on a first introduction to the landscape there appears to be little else than barren hills plentifully besprinkled with black looking objects, which on closer examination prove to be weather-beaten, sun-burnt granite boulders, yet behind these ranges of hills there are many thousands of acres of rich valley land where rice and a variety of other cereals and tubers are extensively cultivated. Besides these, sugar cane, ground nut and sweet potatoes thrive on the lower slopes and patches may occasionally be seen on portions of rising ground surrounded by the flooded paddy fields. Garden fruit and vegetables of the usual varieties may also be met with in the larger villages, about the confines of which, they are cultivated mostly for home consumption. In the neighbourhood of Deep Bay, more particularly to the eastward, the lichee is abundantly grown and in the Bay itself will be found the most extensive oyster beds in this part of the province. Commencing from about the middle of August, suipe