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Judging by the dialects the natives of Kanogtung speak, there are apparently three groups of people in the province, viz, 816 Cantonese or Kuangchulos, Haklos, and Hakion er Hakkas. I say apparently, CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE CO.,because they really come from one and the same family. The difference in their dialects le caused by geographical reasons and the order in which they immigrated into the province. Let que refer you to har histo y.
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ORDER OF ARRIVAL
In the Ching Dynasty the Emperor Tsin Ze-wang went 5,00-sidiors to be stationed st Wanchai for coat defence; these 613 soldiers formed the fast settlers in Kung tung and they were known as Cantonese. The habits, customs and manner of living
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Thus it is clear that the Hakkan are of the same origin as the rest of the Chinese people A Frenchman, M. Pinton, in the year 1892, published his One Finite au
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Paya de Hakk dans le Province de Danton""" in which he said that while tamult and disorder prevailed in Central China, the Hakkas fed to Kuangtung to take refuge, MASTER OF MIRACLES, WLS BOARDING HOUSE,
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They found the place hilly an I living hard, The women had to work with mga on the Gelds, basides, cooking and doing needle GRAND CHANGE work. In consequence they had untural fect. This statement made by a foreigner coincides with what is in our history...
The Chinose settlers of Formoss are mostly Fukiencas owing to the proximity of the two lands. Koangtung people, of whom the majority are Hakkas These began to migrate to
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Formnes as far back as two or the hundred years ago.
Thus it is evidently a mistake on your part to call Hakkas the half cete tribesmen, aboriginal Fomissons and Chinese. Ten years ago, books in foreign languages on things Chinese were written,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF of the present inhabitants hear strong by missionaries who got their materia!
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NOTICE.
from the ignorant Chinese, Matty sad resemblances to thote of the early settlers, blunders can boon discovered in them. You
The next that immigrated into the pro- ! vince were the Bakios, who came during may have got your ideas of the Hakkas
from them. the Ching Dynasty, that is, several hundred years after the coming of the Cantonese.
The Hakkas caure last. The first batch settled down during the Tsang Dynasty, the next batch during the Sung Dynasty.. They left Central China because the ruler 614 unswenk and the country was invaded by
TROM this date and during my absence from the Colony Me A. B. ROUSE will not an SECRETARY of the Society.
By Urder of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary.
Hongkong, May 2, 1912.
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In Radiinion for Biarch Mr G. C. Terry suldines of the neighbouring cussley Bo give a most interesting account of the that over a thousand yet ago, they Tarahumare Indians, the Champion runners occupied what are. Dow called Nanyang of Mexico. Some 15,000 of these Indians chow, Sanchow, Lienchow, Harichow, dwell in the Store Madre Range. They are. Kiayingchow, Tapu, Fenehun, Haaksien, the sole remaining cave-dwellers in North Longmen and Chinyuan. In Chaochow, America. They are pagans. They live on with a single exception, Tenghai, and in beans and corn, and when these give out, on rate and snakes. They excel in the run- Kaangelow with the exception of three or four hsiens, these Hakkas found their way wing of races--not the sprint of the white and finally settled down side by side with man, but of a kind that no white man could the natives. They also found their way to or would endure. As couriers probably Ranchow, Laichow. Lanchow and many no other runners on earth can compare other placer, Their population now with them. They are employed as couriers amounts to several millions. They occupy by the Mexican flovernment and by mining concerns of Chihuahua and Sonora. They six tentha of the whole province.
average frequently 170 miles a day. One specially quick messenger covered a distanco of 600 miles in five days. The runner bad no luggage, but simply carried his white wool blanket and a package of ground corn, *pimole."
The Chiness and Baklon who came before them called thein-Hakkas or Hyklos which mengs guests or strangers; the ending "lo" because later added to the word as it is still done now is most placés in the country:
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There is interesting evidence to indicato only the bow and arrows) these Indians popular LO HANG (2) quality
will run down a deer, there being great sery transparent and of first water. It that the word Hak" is not applied to numbers of these animals in the Sierras.. weighs 76 lbs. of which 9 be, are bright that people alone. Kuchow, Lichow, Half-a-dozen men take part in the chass chrysoprase and can be made into numerous Kunsies and Lanchow, the peple call the precip in relays, until
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Kuangchow sponking people beast, running in ever nanowing circios, THE DAIRY FARM CO, LTD. Febmio, meaning strangers or guests, just drops from pure exhaustion. They also in the same sense au Hakkas, while they chase and capture the wild turkey in the same manner. The runners undergo call those who speck the Bakkas dialect, a sort of training before the races Haiamin or new peopić
come off that is they eat no fat, no potatoes, eggs, or anything sweet. Neither must they touch tesvino," their own
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Of the three dialects, that spoken by the
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and 'MASIge; and the night before the & comparatively short period of time; and race all runners are cured."` _The_said they still retain the sccent and procuring consists of serai-religious ceremonies, HIRE.ciation of Central China
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Some ten years ago, aleashed Cantonese scholar. Mr. Chen Lantu wrote a book In which to dwale at length on the sizaileritica between Hakka and the dialect in vogue
Contrat China.At the same time a Hakko Mr Lin Chien, also published a book entitled "The Origin of the Hinkkoan, **** The writer proved from the point of view of social customs that the Hakkas came from 293 Central Chins, Soute yours Inter Me: WapS Tsung bilen a Hakks, after travelling throw, Kuspichow in Honan, came to the Bame inclusion. He found the maIDOTS, customs and disfects of Kinchow similar to those of his own people. Quite recently a great andent of the Chinese antiquaries. and writers, compiled a work entitled Thie Suw Dinfect He also made the
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