KOBE-HYOGO–NAGASAKI
INSURANCE OFFICES-Continued
Prussian Fire Insurance Company, Stettin
Queen Insurance Company
Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation (Fire) Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation (Marine). Royal Insurance Company
Russian National Insurance Co. (Marine) Salamander Fire Insurance Company
Schweiz Transport Versicherungs Ges., Zurich (Marine) Scottish Imperial Insurance Company (Life) Scottish Union and National Insurance Company Sea Insurance Company, Limited
South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Standard Life Assurance Company
State Fire Insurance Company, Liverpool Palatine Insurance Company, Limited
Sun Insurance Office
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada....
Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Co., Limited... Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company, Limited Triton Insurance Company, Limited
Underwriting and Agency Association.
Union Insurance Society of Canton
Union Insurance Society
Union Internationale, Anvers (Marine).
Union Marine Insurance Company, Limited
Upper Rhine Marine Insurance Company, Limited
World Marine Insurance Company.
Simon, Evers & Co. W. M. Strachan & Co. Butterfield & Swire Cornes & Co.
Otto Reimers & Co. Becker & Co. Ed. L. van Nierop C. Illies & Co. C. Illies & Co. Raspe & Co. Butterfield & Swire Smith, Baker & Co. Browne & Co.
Heyn, Bröckelmann & Co. Sale & Co., Ld., sub-agents Robison & Co.
Jardine, Matheson & Co. Samuel Samuel & Co. C. Illies & Co.
Jardine, Matheson & Co. Robison & Co.
Samuel Samuel & Co. H. Lucas & Co.
C. Illies & Co.
Findlay, Richardson & Co. Ed. L. Van Nierop Tata & Co.
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NAGASAKI
Nagasaki is a city of great antiquity, and in the early days of European in- tercourse with the Far East was the most important seat of the foreign trade with Japan. It is admirably situated on the south-western coast of the Island of Kiushiu. A melancholy interest attaches to the neighbourhood as the scene of the extinction of Christianity in the empire and the extermination of the professors of that religion in 1637. At the entrance to the harbour lies the celebrated island of Pappenberg, where thousands of Christian martyrs were thrown over the high cliff rather than go through the form of trampling on the cross. Not far from Nagasaki is also the village of Mogi, where 37,000 Christians suffered death in defending themselves against the forces sent to subdue them. When the Christian religion was crushed and the foreigners expelled, to the Dutch alone was extended the privilege of trading with Japan, and they were confined to a small plot of ground at Nagasaki called Deshima. By the treaty of 1858, Nagasaki was one of the ports opened to British trade on the 1st July in the following year.
On entering the harbour of Nagasaki no stranger can fail to be struck with the admirable situation of the town and the beautiful panorama of hilly scenery opened to his view. The harbour is a landlocked inlet deeply indented with small bays, about three miles long with a width varying from half-a-mile to a mile. A reclamation scheme is now in progress; the portion of the sea in front of what were formerly the foreign concessions at Deshima and Megasaki is to be reclaimed and the harbour deepened. It is estimated that the cost of the work will be four million yen. The work has been three years in progress and it is hoped that two more years will see its completion. The town is on the castern side of the harbour, and is about two miles long by about three-quarters of a mile in extreme width. foreign quarter adjoins the town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses are situated on the bund facing the harbour, behind which are a few streets running parallel with it, and there are a number of private residences on the hill-side. There are English Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, two clubs, and a Masonię Lodge. The principal hotel is the Nagasaki Hotel, opened in 1898, a three-storeyed
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