CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10] — Page 192

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on which rear themselves

some

and fantastic

in strange shapes huge granite boulders called by the ~ Chinese Sung-Wang- loi, the watch tower of the Prince of

گرام

Bung

or as others call it.

"the hall of the Prince of

#

of ~

eung!

2.

A Chinese

inscrip-

On one

of

tion is engraved

these stones and all the

Chinese in the District are much interested in these

memorials

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memorials, the only links with the past which exist in the Colony of Hongkong.

Tradition states that the last

of the Sung dynasty took re fuge here some 600 years

when flying South from the Mongol conquerors of his race.

ago

Enel: 1. 3. Extract.

I annex an es

extract

from D. Eitel's history of "Hongkong narrating

incident.

4.

the

The Legislative Coun

cil

3

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