Directory_and_Chronicle_1841 — Page 303

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

1841.

The Hongkong Gazette.

289

The list is as follows, the names being written as they are pronoun-

ced on the spot.

No. 3.

Chek-chu,

#the

the capital, a large town.

Heongkong,

A large fishing village.

Population 2000

200

Kung-lam'

Shek-lup,

Wong-nei-chung, An agricultural village.

Stone-quarry-Poor village.

Soo-ke-wan, 掃箕灣

300

200

Do.

Do.

150

Do.

Large village.*

1200

Tai-shek-ha,

Stone quarry, a hamılet,

20

Kwun-tai-loo,

Fishing village.

50

Soo-koon-poo,

A hamlet.

10

Hung-heong-loo,

Hamlet.

50

Sai-wan,

Hamlet.

30

Tai long,

Fishing hamlet.

5

Too-te-wan,

Stone quarry, a hamlet.

Tai-tam,

Hamlet, near Tytam bay.

Shek-tong-chuy,

Soo-koo-wan,Hamlet.

Chun-hum, Deserted fishing hamlet.

60

20

30

Stone-quarry. Hamlet.

25

Tseeni-suy-wan, 淺水灣

Sum-suy-wan, 深水灣

Shek-pae, 石牌

In the Bazaar.

In the Boats,

Laborers from Kowlung.

Actual present population.

The Isthmus of Kowlung, or Tresemshatsuy,

g Tresemshatsuy,g

tains about 800 people.

̇ Kowlung九龍, Taipang 大鵬, and Lye moon 鯉魚門

are villages and places near the isthmus.

* The population of this place is migratory: the place is often completely deserted, and the present influx of inhabitants depends upon the great demand for stone.

Do.

Do.

Do.

00

4350

800

2000

300

7,450

con-

.00

3 2 3 4 3 3 8 8

00

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