CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 112

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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as the Cantonese diabet

Amoments in number

avst

They arbolimits in

to 64.140

villages

whatsting 161

They chiefly inc

habit the valleys

espec.

ially those drained by this Shane Chin and in Long

rivers

Their main pur

suit is that of agriculture; but they

are also excellent

haders and full of that

enterprise f

which

race the Cantonere

justly famous

The Hakkas

GY

Stranger

as the term significo, supposed to be des conded

from the nongols and

A

have reached the southern

China when

provinces of China

the Mongol dynasty was

over thrown, about the middle

of the 1416

art

Century. They

regarded by the Punitio

aliens and speak

A

diabet

This

quite distinct from Cantonese The villages occupied by

Bakkas

arr

Cand dimens

255 in

and aggregate

of 36.070

villages

A

population

As a rule their

are inhabitia solely

by members of thir

race just villages

as the Penti

are inhabited mes

by

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