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SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL

SWATOW-CANTON

Med. Officers-Dr. Layng, Dr. Morland

and Dr. Mansel

SWATOW DISPENSARY

Chua Thang Jiang

SWATOW HOTEL

F. H. Hyde, proprietor

SWATOW GRASS CLOTH, SILK AND DRAWN-

WORK DEPOT: Tel. Ad. Huian

E. V. S. Lim Chua Si Peng

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Woo Chueng Chung, manager C. K. Chew, clerk-in-charge

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Ashmore, Mrs. W., Jr. (abt.)

Asverus, Mrs. Balmer, Miss

Bixby, Miss, M.D. (absent) Black, Miss

Blaikie, Dr. Mrs. G.

Gibson, Mrs. (absent) Groesbeck, Mrs. Haesloop, L. Mrs. Harkness, Miss Huck, Mrs.

Blake, Mrs.

Kahler, Mrs.

Keith, Miss

Campkin, Mrs. (absent)

Kemp, Mrs.

Carlín, Mrs.

Laidler, Miss

Consland, Mrs. Cruz, Mrs. F. da

Cruz, The Misses da

Currie, Mrs. Dalziel, Mrs.

Focken, Mrs. F. W.

Foster, Mrs. (absent)

Forbes, Mrs. J. McG.

Layng, Mrs. Lyall, Mrs.

Lynborg, Mrs. C. P. C. MacGowan, Mrs. McIver, Mrs. (absent) Mackenzie, Mrs. M. Maclagan, Mrs. (absent) McLavy, Mrs.

O'Sullivan, Mrs. Pearne, Mrs.

¡Prokopec, Mrs. S.

Ricketts, Miss (absent) Riddel, Mrs.

Ruffin, Baroness von St. John, Miss (absent) Scott, Mrs., M.D.

Scott, Miss

Smith, Mrs. F.

Spiecher, Mrs. (absent)- Steele, Mrs.

Thompson, Mrs.

Whitman, Mrs. (absent). Willis, Mrs. R. Willis, Miss

Willis, Miss Rosamund

CANTON

HKwing-chau

州廣

Canton is situated on the Chu-kiang or Pearl River, in latitude 23 deg. 7 min. 10 sec. N., and longitude 113 deg. 14 min. 30 sec. E., and is the capital of the province of Kwangtung. It is sometimes called the City of Rams and the City of Genii, both of which names are derived from ancient legends. Canton is a foreign perversion of Kwangtung, its real name. One of the first cities in the Chinese Empire, it is also the seat of government for the province, and is the residence of the Viceroy of "The Two Kwang" (Kwangtung and Kwangsi). The Tartar General is likewise resident here besides a number of other government officials of more or less distinction, including the Haikwan, or Superintendent of Customs, a post always held by a Manchu.

Owing to its favoured situation, Canton became at an early date the Chinese port to which the traffic of European countries was first attracted. The Portuguese found their way thither in 1516, and Arab navigators had been making regular voyages between Can- ton and the ports of Western Asia as early as the tenth century. The Dutch appeared on the scene about a hundred years later than the Portuguese, and these in their turn were supplanted by the English. The latter, towards the close of the seventeenth century, founded the very profitable trade which was conducted for nearly one hundred and fifty years by the Agents of the East India Company, who established a Factory there in 1684, which was afterwards celebrated throughout the world. From 1684 the export of ten to England increased rapidly. The Company's monopoly terminated in

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