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TAINAN-FOO AND TAKOW-SWATOW

記瑞 Sui-kee

MALCAMPO & Co., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents

J. Malcampo Quioga (Amoy)

Ong Bian Hoat, signs per pro. E. Č. dos Santos

Lim Sion Peck

Tan Loo Tat

Iu i

Tong-héng.

MANNICH & Co., JULIUS, Merchants and

Commission Agents

Julius Mannich

Alexr. Turrian

Agency

Mannheim Reinsurance Company Transatlantic Marine Insce. Co.

MANSON (DAVID) MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND

MEDICAL SCHOOL

Hon. Surgeon and Instructor-W.

Wykeham Myers, M.B., &c.

Committee-P. L. Warren, A. W. Bain,

Julius Mannich

Hon. Treasurers-Bain & Co.

MEHTA & CO., Merchants and Commission

Agents

D. C. Mehta

MYERS, W. WYKEHAM, M.B., C.M., &c., Medi-

cal Practitioner

OLLIA & Co., D. D., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents

D. D. Ollia

PILOT

S. P. Dalal

H. Vosteen

ROMAN CATHOLIC (DOMINICAN) MISSION

Rev. F. B. Herce, Takao

Rev. J. Clemente, Ban-kim-cheng Rev. F. Giner, Soa-lun

Rev. R. Colomer, Lo-chu-cheng Rev. J. Khanh, Tainanfoo

RUSSELL & Co., Merchants

D. Moncrieff Wright R. J. Hastings

Agencies

Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld. Reliance Marine Insurance Co., Ld. China Fire Insurance Company, Ld.

TAIT & Co., Merchants

Tsuah Gheeting, agent Agencies

Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Company China Merchants S. N. Company North China Insurance Company Java Sea and Fire Insurance Company Union Insurance Society of Canton Straits Insurance Company, Limited

TAKOW TUG COMPANY

Bain & Co., general manager

WRIGHT, D. MONCRIEFF, Merchant

SWATOW

Swatow, which was first thrown open to foreigners by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated at the mouth of the river Han, near the eastern border of the Kwangtung province, in lat. 23 deg. 20 min. 43 sec. N., and long. 116 deg. 39 min. 3 sec. E. It is the shipping port for the city of Cha'o-chow-fu, the seat of the local government, 35 miles inland, and San-Ho-Pa, forty miles farther up the river.

Swatow is built on the northern bank of the Han, which forms part of an alluvial plain through which the branches of the river flow. The shore on the opposite side is bold and striking, the hills stretching away to the coast and forming what is known to sea-going people as the "Cape of Good Hope;" Pagoda Hill rises at the opposite side; and in a direct line from this lies the large island of Namoa,

The first foreign trading depôt in this locality was inaugurated at Namoa, where the opium vessels used to anchor, but it was subsequently removed to Double Island, which is situated just inside the river and is four miles from Swatow. Foreigners here made themselves notorious in the early years of the settlement by the kidnapping of ooolies, and so strong was the feeling shown against them by the natives that no foreigners were safe far from Double Island, while they were strictly forbidden to enter Swatow, and it was not until 1861 that they could do so. In the country round Swatow the antipathy to foreigners was of much longer duration. The British Consul was held technically to reside at Cha'o-chow-fu, and subsequent to 1861 several ineffectual.

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