RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1970 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ww72j0241 A BRITISH MARITIME CHART OF 1780 SHOWING HONG KONG HENRY D. Talbot* A recent acquisition by the Map Library of the Department of Geography and Geology of the University of Hong Kong is of some interest as it appears to be the earliest known British map or chart depicting the island of Hong Kong. The title is "A Chart of the China Sea from the Island of Sancian to Pedra Branca with the course of the River Tigris from Canton to Macao from a Portuguese draught communicated by Captain Hayter and compared with the Chinese Chart of the Macao Pilots". The places mentioned need little explanation as they are names still used today. Sancian is also called St. John's Island and is to the west of Macao, while Pedra Branca is today called Pedro Blanco and is an isolated rock, used as a navigational landmark, to the east of Hong Kong. The River Tigris is the name given to the river up to Canton, derived from the name of the narrows called "Bocca Tigris" (Tiger's Mouth) in Portuguese, a translation of the Chinese name. The Captain Hayter is evidently Captain George Hayter of the East India Company Ship York. This ship was in Chinese waters frequently from 1741 up to 1786 and Hayter was compiler of another chart dated 1787. The chart was "... Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett Map and Chart-sellers No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 29 Nov. 1780" Robert Sayer (1725-1794) and John Bennett were well known as map-sellers at the end of the eighteenth century. It is recorded that Robert Sayer retired in 1794 after almost half a century in the map chart trade. The size of the chart is 950 × 640 mm., while the size of the map itself is 781 × 596 mm. The latter is the length along the neatlines, the inner border of the map. * Mr. Talbot is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Geology in the University of Hong Kong. He was Hon. Editor of this Journal in 1964. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1970 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ww72j0241 OBAY kingpint MIN-CAN-ÍÍIEN AVTIN Land • Gratin and I44 Lake Chemu je SCALE OF ORIGINAL CHART 333,475 Juantor Thay *** ISLAND H Sun Miles ^ONG KONG Island Vighing H Hook A. Prado or LA MAN + ng Xuan Bur-Oinou Statute Wang Launy orang kep 3' 5 ♫ 3 Met Bay 14 #4 # Plate 15 A chart of the China Sea from the Island of Sancian to Pedra Branca with the course of the River Tigris from Canton to Macao from a Portuguese draught communicated by Captain Hayter and compared with the Chinese Chart of the Macao Pilots. 29th November, 1780. (From the Map Library of the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Hong Kong) ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 214 Jacob Grimes: F. Shannons These performances drew the largest audiences of the season", which statement causes some surprise seeing that it had only just started. But the house was filled in every part and a good number of ladies in the dress circle graced the occasion, while the parterre was so crowded that many of the spectators had to stand". Noteworthy were the scenery, painted by Captain Hamilton; and, in Crinoline Mr. PHILLIPS as the jealous husband “which would be considered excellent on the boards of the Adelphi” (NCH 14.3.1863). 16.3.1863 (Mon) Repeat of the former. 26.3.1863 (Thur) J.M. MORTON: "Fitzsmythe of Fitzsmythe Hall" (1860) T: Farce (1 act) J.M. MORTON: "Where There's a Will There's a Way” (1849) T: Comic drama (1 act) C: Amateurs (Local and British officers) Th: N.N. (G?) R: Casts: Where There's a Will: Dona Francesca: Mr. W. Hyslop (of Gibb, Livington & Co) Don Manuel: D.A.C.G. Ewing Don Lopes Avila: Mr. Raymur Dona Blanche de Tavora: Mr. A. Broom (of Jardine, Matheson & Co) Don Scipio de Pompolino: D.A.C.G. Cooksley Fitzsmythe: Fitzsmythe: D.A.C.G. Cooksley His wife: D.A.C.G. Hayter Penelope, their daughter: Mr. A. Broom Frank Tottenham: Mr. Raymur Gregory, servant: D.A.C.G. Ewing It was remarked about Mr. Raymur that "this gentleman was of a backward turn in his orthography". So a pseudonym after all; the hint though does not make it clearer. There is no Raymur, nor a "Rumyar" (which would be a very strange name indeed) in the "Shanghai Almanac for 1862” — the last one available. Could it be Mr. E.I. Remier? Although the review of the 13th February had not been negative, tonight's performances were, in the eyes of the Herald. "upon the whole an improvement on those of the first subscription night, and the audience expressed their approbation in a more decided manner, so that everybody seemed pleased with the evening's entertainment", Where There's a Will There's a Way, an elegant drawing room play situated in 18th century Portuguese royal circles, "was placed on the stage in a very creditable manner, considering the slender means and appliances as being tasteful, rich and, we presume, correct for the period, while the ladies looked quite charming in their elegant dresses; the whole apparently got up 'regardless of expenses as the London playbills have it". In Fitzsmythe the best piece of acting was that of Mr. HAYTER as the old lady who, like Mr. Jourdain, was "ambitious of having "quality" friends and finery, while in her domestic occupations she revelled in jam and soapuds The "languishing Penelope" of Mr. BROOM was also quite fascinating”. (NCH 28.3.1863). 17.4.1863 (Fri) Concert by amateurs in aid of the Lancashire Relief Fund. ================================================================================