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west from French island, and nearly south from Whampoa town. It has 3000 inhabitants of the surnames of Shiú Pún and. Leung. The inhabitants are principally farmers, but there are several literary graduates among them, the number of scholars being large for such a retired village. There are half a dozen ancestral halls, seven schools, and eight or ten shops. The stone path from the landing to the village is 1100 yards in length. Not much can be said for the villagers as regards their goodwill towards foreign- ers; there are many opium smokers, and not a few lawless fellows among them.

San-hảng

A small village on the island Siú Kuk-wat west

from French island. It is approached from the river by a stone walk 400 yards in length. There are 300 inhabitants of the surname of Léung. One ancestral hall, one school, but no shops. There are two brothers aud a sister in this village who were born deaf and dumb, the eldest is twenty years of age. The inhabitants are prin- cipally farmers and are rather poor.

Sz'-ká shán. A village on the island of Siú Kuk-wai, north east from Tai-shek tau. There are 1,000 inhabitants of the surnames Sung Tang Yan and 'Ng The village

contains five ancestral halls manufactories, but no shops.

and one school; four ground-nut oil The dwelling-houses are poorly built, and much dilapidated. The people however are friendly and hos- pitable. The shortest way of access is to land at Chek-hòm wharf, and follow a gravel walk which leads to the village.

Tái-lóng. A village on the island of Siú Kuk-wai, about 800 yds. south from Kún-shán, from which village a narrow path leads to it through fields of sugar-cane, rice, and vegetables. The pathi commences in Kunshan at the public hall, and leads up a gradual ascent to Tái-long. There are 1600 inhabitants of the surname of Lai, three ancestral halls, and two temples. In the village are six schools, and one sugar mill in which a dozen bullocks are employed to drive the stones. There are half a dozen shops, the people being principally farmers, very civil and friendly in their treatment of strangers.

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Tai-páng. A village on the island of Siú Kuk-wai, about half a mile S. W. of San-háng. There are 1000 inhabitants of the surnames Wong Li and Lam, three ancestral halls, one school, two shops, one temple in which three Budhist priests re- side. The inhabitants are principally tillers of the soil-civil and