RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 148 NOTES AND QUERIES David Lopes, in his Expansão da lingua portuguesa nos séculos XVI, XVII e XVIII, showed that a pidginized Portuguese was the Europeans' lingua franca in the East up to the nineteenth century. This may have been the jargon from which the English sailors found their lingo and taught it to the low life of English sea ports. If this is so, it may have entered one level of our language at approximately the same time as savvy, probably Portuguese sabe, though the OED says Spanish, and Partridge (Origins) says Sabir; dodo, Portuguese doudo: OED, 1628 E. ALTHAM Lett. to Sir Edw. Altham "18 June in the Iland Mauritius, called by ye Portingalls a DoDo... P.S. Of Mr. Perce you shall receue a iarr of giner... and a bird called a DoDo, if it lives"; pickaninny Portuguese pequenino: OED 1657 R. LIGON Barbadoes, 48 "When the child is borne (which she calls her Pickaninnie) she (a neighbour) helps to make a little fire neve her feet... In a fortnight, this woman is at work with her Pickaninny at her back." But even if lingo did enter English cant from Sabir, it would be likely that it was later reinforced by a similar form in sailor's Portuguese. The same could be said, of course, of savvy. | ROBERT WALLACE THOMPSON, ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 153 GOTTSCHALK, E. GREEN, Mrs. M. GUADAGNINI, Dr. P. - 6, Macdonnell Road, Apt. 15, H.K. 3, Barker Road, H.K. Italian Consul-General, 705, Chartered Bank Building, H.K. GUILLAUME, Baron P. de 5, Coombe Road, H.K. HARMAN, A. L. HARRISON, Prof. B. HAYDON, E. S. HAYES, J. W. HAYIM, E. J. * HAYWARD, G. W. + HEDLEY-SAUNDERS, Mrs. J. - HELLBECK, Dr. H. - HENSMAN, Dr. Bertha + HERRIES, M. A. R. D'HESTROY, Baron P. de Gaiffier HINDMARSH, R. H. HO, Hung-pong HO, Kuang-chung HO, Teh-kuei HOFFMAN, Mrs. D. P. - HOGAN, The Hon. Sir M., Kt. HOLMES, Hon. D. R. HORSMAN, Miss A. M. HOWORTH, J. F. + c/o H.K. & Shanghai Banking Corpn., H.K. Department of History, H.K. University, H.K. c/o The Supreme Court, H.K. c/o The Colonial Secretariat, H.K. 41, Island Road, Deep Water Bay, H.K. Economic Survey Section, 804, Man Yee Building, H.K. 11-B Bowen Road, H.K. c/o German Consulate-General, 1 Duddell Street, 4th Floor, H.K. Chung Chi College, Ma Liu Shui, N.T. c/o Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., H.K. Belgian Consul-General, 105, H.K. & Shanghai Bank Building, H.K. 228 Wang Hing Building, H.K. c/o H.K. & Shanghai Banking Corpn., H.K. 2, Wallace Way, Rornie Road, Singapore, (11). 10 Tai Hang Road, 2nd Floor, H.K. 36 Macdonnell Road, Flat 7, Lindo Court, H.K. Chief Justice's Chambers, Supreme Court, H.K. Commerce and Industry Dept., Fire Brigade Building, H.K. Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulum, H.K. HSIA, Tung-pei c/o Leigh & Orange, Room 2013 Union House, H.K. 131-B, Wanchai Building, 8th Floor, 131 Wanchai Road, H.K. * Life Member Please notify the Hon Secretary of any inaccuracy ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1966 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/bz60k0811 NOTES AND QUERIES 165 Malay title dato. As for Mo-lo-cha, an abusive expression for an Indian, I see the Portuguese element mouro, 'a Moor'. The slang term for Indian in Macanese is still moro- the area round Belilios Terrace in Hong Kong was once known as mato moros, 'hill of the Moors' because of the large number of Indians living in the district. This name was transformed by folk-etymology to the good old Christian matamoros ‘kill the Moors'. Santiago (or St. James) is nicknamed 'matamoros' in Spain to this day. Moreover the Indians in Malaysia are referred to by the Portuguese of Malacca as moros, whether they be Muslims or not. The Muslim Malays are never so named. In the Philippines the non-Christian inhabitants of Mindinao and other southern islands are also known as moros, a name given them by the Spaniards. The old pidgin records collected by Leland in the nineteenth century also give moloman as the pidgin English word for Indian, so that there is no more reason to derive mo-lo-cha from Maharajah than to imagine that Hong Kong ever was a fragrant harbour. University of the West Indies. St. Augustine, Trinidad. ROBERT WALLACE THOMPSON NOTES 1 Itcheong-U-Lam and Ian-Kuong-lam, Ou-Mun Kei-Leok (Monografia de Macau), Macao, 1950. 2 Chang lu Lin and Yin Kuang Jen, Ao Men Chi Lüeh (Gazetteer of Macao), Canton, c. 1751. See also Bawden C. R. "An eighteenth century Chinese source for the Portuguese dialect of Macao" in Silver Jubilee Volume of the Sinbun-Kagaku-Kenkyusyo, Kyoto, 1954, and Thompson, Robert Wallace, "Two synchronic cross-sections in the Portuguese dialect of Macao", Orbis, tome VIII, No. 1, Louvain, 1959, A NOTE ON LAND MEASUREMENT AND TENANT RENTALS IN HONG KONG. Land Measurement Under the laws of the Colony of Hong Kong all land is Crown Land, albeit some of it is under lease. The right to resumption of leased lands for a public purpose is retained in all leases. The following notes on local Chinese custom have mostly been acquired during investigations for the purpose of presenting the Crown's ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1968 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/66833948d GULLAND, W. G. THE LIBRARY 187 Chinese porcelain; with notes by T. J. Larkin. London, Chapman & Hall, 1902-11. 2 vols. HACKNEY, Louise Wallace, and YAU, Chang-foo. A study of the Chinese paintings in the collection of Ada Small Moore, London, Oxford Univ. P., 1940. HALL, D. G. E. A history of south-east Asia. 2nd ed. London, Macmillan, 1964, reprinted 1966. HANSFORD, S. Howard. Chinese jade carving. London, Lund Humphries, 1950. HARRISSON, Tom. History, science, the arts and nature in Sarawak (1960-61) and (1961-62). [Kuching, Government Printing Office, 1961-62]. Reprinted from Sarawak's annual report, 1961 and 1962. HENDERSON, Norman K. The education of handicapped children; recent trends and research, with implications for Hong Kong. Hong Kong, University Press, 1964. HENDERSON, Norman K. Educational developments and research, with special reference to Hong Kong. Hong Kong, University Press, 1963. HENDERSON, Norman K. Statistical research methods in education and psychology. Hong Kong, University Press, 1964. HERRFAHRDT, Heinrich. Sun Yatsen, der Vater des neuen China: ein Beispiel west-östlicher Begegnung. Hamburg, Drei-Türme-Verlag, 1948. HEWLETT, Sir Meyrick. Forty years in China. London, Macmillan, 1943. HEYWOOD, G. S. P. Rambles in Hong Kong. 2nd ed. Hongkong, Kelly & Walsh, 1951. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1968 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/66833948d 196 SUNG, Z. D. THE LIBRARY The symbols of Yi King; or, The symbols of the Chinese logic of changes. Shanghai, China Modern Education Co., 1934. SWALLOW, Robert W. Sidelights on Peking life. Peking, China Booksellers Ltd., 1927. TENG, Ssu-yü, and BIGGERSTAFF, Knight. An annotated bibliography of selected Chinese reference works. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard U.P., 1950. (Harvard-Yenching studies, v. 2) TENG, Ssu-yü, and others. Japanese studies on Japan and the Far East; a short biographical and bibliographical introduction, prepared by Teng Ssu-yü with the collaboration of Masuda Kenji and Kaneda Hiromitsu. Hong Kong, University Press, 1961. THOMPSON, Robert Wallace. O dialecto português de Hongkong. Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Filológicos, 1961. THORBECKE, Ellen. People in China; thirty-two photographic studies from life. London, Harrap, 1935. TREGEAR, Thomas R. A survey of land use in Hong Kong and the New Territories. Hong Kong, University Press, 1958. TROTSKY, Leon. Problems of the Chinese revolution ... Tr. with an introd. by Max Shachtman. 2d ed. New York, Paragon Book Gallery, 1962. Reprint of 1st ed., 1932. TUN, Li-ch'en (E) Annual customs and festivals in Peking, as recorded in the Yen-ching sui-shih-chi. Tr. and annotated by Derk Bodde. 2nd ed., rev. Hong Kong, University Press, 1965. U.S. Library of Congress. Science and Technology Division. Mainland China organizations of higher learning in science and technology and their publications: a selected guide. Comp. by Chi Wang. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1972 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gm80qf99h 88 HENRY JAMES LETHBRIDGE Report of the Commission to inquire into the existence of insanitary properties in the Colony, Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1898. 'Report of the Commission to Enquire into the Public Works Department', Hong Kong Sessional Papers, no. 13 of 1902, pp. 125-368, REVIEWS IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 1927, pp. 643-4 1928, pp. 648-9 1929, pp. 197-8 1929, pp. 410-12 1929, p. 944 1930, p. 487 1931, pp. 677-8 1931, pp. 872-3 1932, pp. 672-5 1932, pp. 1025-6 1934, pp. 151-3 1935, pp. 189-90 1935, p. 395-6 Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall, An Outline History of China. Louise Wallace Hackney, Guide-Posts to Chinese Painting. A.E. Grantham. Hills of Blue. A Picture Roll of Chinese History from Far Beginnings to the Death of Ch'ien Lung, A.D. 1799. V.A. Riasanovsky, The Modern Civil Law of China (part 1). Rodney Gilbert, The Unequal Treaties: China and the Foreigner. Sir Harold Partlett, A Brief Account of Diplomatic Events in Manchuria. Fr. Schjöth, The Currency of the Far East. V.A. Riasanovsky, The Modern Civil Law of China (part 2). G.F. Hudson, Europe and China: A Survey of their Relations from the Earliest Times to 1800. Leonard Shiblien Hsü, The Political Philosophy of Confucianism. E.T. Williams, China Yesterday and To-day. Roswell S. Britton, The Chinese Periodical Press, 1800-1900. Bernard M. Allen, The Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G.: A Memoir. [1930, pp. 217-221 Obituary of Sir E.M. Satow by J.H. Stewart Lockhart] ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2801w5938 THE MARYKNOLL MISSION, HONG KONG 1941-46 31 the occupying troops shoot across the bay at any moving target; so far, none of the patients has been hit but some fishermen have been hit and their wounds treated by Dr. Bagalawis. Father John Toomey, formerly a thorn in the side of the Japanese occupying forces in Kongmoon, has been named Local Superior at Stanley, to replace Father Tom Malone. June 23rd was the 25th anniversary of Father Downs' Ordination, and the 21st of his entry to Maryknoll. The event was fittingly celebrated at Stanley, with Bishop Valtorta and a number of non-Maryknollers present at dinner. JULY July saw the arrival of Father John Toomey to take over as Local Superior. His departure from Sun Ooi was delayed by the Japanese, who apparently "hated" to see him leave for the freedom of Hong Kong, but was very much regretted by the many hundreds of starving Chinese who will no longer share in his daily issue of U.S.A.-donated cracked rice. We learn that our old and valued friend, Capt. Joe Ryan of the President Steamship Lines, is now in the U.S. Navy. We learn that he has commissioned a friend of his to continue to bring the ship's used magazines to Stanley for our library. AUGUST August is usually our busiest time with the Mainland missioners taking their annual holidays and seeking medical, dental and optical attention during this steaming summer month. However, with travel so dangerous and difficult, our occupancy record is the lowest in the history of the Stanley House. On the 16th, two officers of the Royal Engineers came for the second time to look over our property, with a view to taking over a part of it in case of emergency--such as an attack on Hong Kong! A full house might have dampened their interest but seeing so many vacant rooms couldn't help make them see the house as a perfect military hospital. SEPTEMBER Dr. Wallace, an American Mission doctor, well-known to all ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 108 HOPPER, F Not known HORWITZ, Bernard 13.3.1883 HORWITZ, Bernard 12.3.1882 HOWELL, David 25.7.1936 HOWELL, Gerhard Not known HOWELL, Harry 29.11.1927 HUBE, Mrs Ida 28.11.1947 HUBER, Johannes 4.10.1903 HUELS, H N 6.1.1878 HUGHES, John Howard 27.6.1939 HUNTER, Alex Russell 25.11.1919 HUNTER, Gilzean Not known HUNTER, Mrs Sophia 23.1.1949 HULK, F H Not known HUNTER, John 2.7.1962 HUNTINGDON, William D 12.3.1869 HURST, Ethel 2.8.1907 HUXLEY, Stanley 16.5.1907 JACOBSON, Paul 16.4.1892 JANSEN, E 11.2.1889 JOHNSON, Thomas 20.7.1910 JOHNSTON, William 5.6.1900 JONES, Mrs 26.12.1913 JONES, J H 4.12.1918 JONES, Thomas 5.5.1876 JONES, Thomas 9.10.1898 JORGENSEN, Captain 30.9.1941 JOST, Adolf Ferdinand Fredrich 3.12.1869 JUNKER, CE 11.1903 KAEHNE, Alice 30.7.1903 KALUS, Johannes 30.9.1907 KANZLER, Aug. Gotthelf Moritz 19.3.1892 KAPPELMEIER, Fritz Not known KAY, Anthony Taylor Not known KELLY, Robert Kerr 22.11.1895 KARL, Friedrich 11.12.1936 KELLER, Daisy 4.2.1950 KELLER, ... 2.7.1931 KENDRICK, S M 10.7.1966 KENNEDY, SC 17.3.1908 KIENE, Juana 14.8.1912 KILLMAN, JW 7.1902 KLEMME, CHF Wilhelm 14.11.1878 KNUDSEN, A 21.4.1927 KOPSIDAKIS, Dimitrios 27.1.1907 KRAFT, Peter 25.11.1965 KRUEGER, Johann Christian 10.5.1930 KYBURZ, I A Jacob 24.5.1901 KYBURZ, Paul Henry 26.8.1943 LAACHMANN, Edward 23.3.1903 LABHART, Joh. Conrad 28.3.1884 LACHENAL, Jones 18.7.1887 LAFFERTY, Michael J Louis 23.10.1892 LARDETT, Jean 17.3.1904 LEA, Edward Not known LE BRETON, Leonard 24.2.1945 LEHNERT, Oswald 20.4.1925 LEVY, Adolf 22.1.1891 LEVY, Charles 13.6.1888 LEVY, S 31.10.1916 LISBETH? (child) 18.4.1882 LLOYD, James 9.5.1890 LOCKHEAD, Herbert S Lawrence 3.11.1888 LOEWENSTEIN-WERTHEIM-FREUDENBERG, Prince Ludwig zu 18.9.1901 LUBBERS, H 26.3.1899 LUTZ, Hans Richard 10.11.1882 LUYENDYK, Mary Williamson 17.7.1876 MACGAVIN, William 26.11.1945 MACKENDRICK, Charles D T 28.11.1943 MACLEOD, John 17.3.1908 MACLEOD, John T Shannon Not known MCDONALD, James B 6.9.1917 MCEWEN, Gerald Wallace 1.5.1937 MCGREGOR, Arthur Robert 1.8.1939 MCINTOSH, Alexander John 10.8.1881 7.5.1912 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 109 MCKENZIE, Herbert 29.1.1876 MCMULLEN, Jacob 28.7.1937 George Houghton MCPHERSON, Alex 28.7.1905 MCPHERSON, Buddy 19.9.1938 Aeneas Cameron MCPHERSON, Peter 13.11.1935 MADISON, Geoffrey 22.11.1936 MAHONEY, Cyril 9.2.1845 MALCOLM, Alexander 24.5.1932 James Cook MANIHAN, Alfred 17.7.1938 MANN, Ludwig 28.3.1892 MANRIQUE, Alonso 17.3.1908 MARCUSSON, Paul Not known Lallace MARTIN, J (infant child of) MASON, John Robert MATHEWS, Abraham Peter Everhard MESKE, Karl 1.5.1903 MARTIN, Paul Curt 19.7.1904 Not known MASON, John Jr 11.11.1924 29.8.1903 MENHORN, Max 30.12.1906 5.3.1915 MEYER, Ernesto 5.1903 MEYERBREI, Jean 17.8.1915 MILAS, Leonides 30.6.1962 MITCHELL, James 29.1.1922 MITCHELL, Mary 2.3.1921 MOREHOUSE, Harry W 19.1.1886 MORRIS, Heten 27.5.1944 MOREHOUSE, Oscar F 9.11.1885 MORRISON, Raymond 5.6.1958 Margaret Arthur MUELLER, Heinrich 18.10.1913 MULLEN, G H 27.11.1936 MUNRO, John 1.2.1941 MURRAY, Samuel 12.10.1924 NELLE, John Edw. 29.7.1914 NEUMARK, Walter 2.9.1922 Fritz NEWCOMBE, Mahalla 19.7.1919 NEWTON, A Cochrance 28.4.1942 NICHOLSON, Charles 24.2.1912 NORDMANN, Maria 24.5.1875 Stewart Schwab de NUSSBAUM, Gottlieb 17.1.1900 NYSSENS, George 12.4.1893 OAKEY, Francis 17.11.1880 OGILVIE, John 2.11.1882 OLSEN + Not known OPPEL, Gustav 11.11.1875 OSWALD, James 27.11.1865 OTT, Theodor 26.3.1886 PACKSCHICK, Otto 13.2.1915 PALOMO, Emilio 6.8.1964 PANTELL, H 17.6.1916 PATRICK, David Jean 24.3.1896 PAUKERT, Karl 20.6.1914 PEACOCK, Charles 31.1.1945 Samuel PERRY, Robert 8.1898 PETERSEN, Johnny 30.10.1915 PETTY OFFICER from USS "Richmond” 24.12.1879 PEACET, Emile 8.10.1877 PIDERIT, Karl 16.6.1922 PIERCE, Joseph 19.2.1879 PINFORD, Frederick S 6.1951 PITCHER, Samuel C 31.1.1895 PLAZA, Dominga 30.6.1963 PLITTS, W 3.9.1882 PLUMB, William W 21.7.1902 POLLARD, Reginald Lucas 25.7.1889 POLLARD, Thomas 9.8.1889 POLLITZ, Fernando Sydney 7.1902 POND, Oriana 11.7.1869 PORTE, J Marius 14.1.1866 PRALL, Joseph Apsley 10.4.1905 PREHN, Heinrich Otto Friedr. Ludwig 24.12.1878 PRESTON, SC 14.3.1932 PRESTONJEE, J 25.11.1959 PRING, Reginald D 15.11.1938 PURKISS, Garnett Gladstone 8.12.1966 RAE, Alexander 16.9.1884 RALPH, John 18.9.1908 RALSTONE, Robert 10.2.1945 RASCH, Mrs Herta 9.2.1945 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 215 Programme: C.M. Von WEBER: "Der Freischütz", overture; by Messrs Essex and Ewing, piano. Sir Henry BISHOP: "Foresters sound the cheerful horn“ (glee). Heinrich PROCH (1809-1878): "Within the grove's deep shadow", a song by Mr. J.P. Tate, W.A. MOZART: String quartet No 7 by Messrs Tate and Howell (violin). Ewing (viola) and Essex (cello). William HORSLEY (1774-1858); "By Celia's Arbour" (glee), F. MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY: "Andante, presto and allegro vivace" (from?) by Messrs Essex and Howell. Ibidem: “Andante and finale" (from?), by Messrs Essex and Howell, Sir Henry BISHOP: "Sleep gentle lady" (glee), William Vincent WALLACE (1813-1865); **The Bellringer", a song by Mr. Essex, F. von FLOTOW: “Allessandro Stradella", fantasia, by Messrs Essex and Howell, William HORSLEY: "See the chariot at hand", song, L. van BEETHOVEN: "Egmont", overture, played on two pianos by Messrs Essex and Ewing. Th: Theatre Royal (G) R: This was the first occasion on which the names of the amateur musicians who entertained the public were mentioned. Some can be traced in the **Shanghai Almanac for 1862”. others belonged to the military forces. Thus the names have come to us of the following gentlemen: H. Cope and E.C. Essex (both of Geo. Barnett & Co). D.A.C.G. Ewing. F.R. Gantwell (Silk broker), A.A. Hayes Jr (of Olyphant & Co), Howell, Inglis, J.M. Nixon (of Blain, Tate & Co). J. Priestley Tate (of Blain, Tate & Co; Municipal Council member 1861-1862) and J. Wheatly (of Reiss & Co). In general the Herald was very satisfied: "It was pleasing to see the gentlemen who volunteered to throw aside for the nonce the cares of business and entertain con amore their less gifted fellow residents with a charming chamber concert. Everything was conducted in a quiet gentlemanly manner so that we imagined ourselves in a drawing room more than a theatre. There was no attempt at grandeur of display or extraordinary performance on special instruments which characterize too much the quasi-musical taste of the day where the composition of the author is sacrificed frequently to the execution of the performer and the audience is led to think more of the latter than the former". These were rather stringent remarks for someone living in an area where very few opportunities arose to compare musical qualities of instrumentalists. Yet the argument of faithfulness to the author's or composer's intentions crops up from time to time and that was obviously regarded as important by the Herald. Unfortunately the acoustics of the theatre were not of the very best so that "Mr. TATE's delicate tenor voice (in the song by Proch) could not fill the house sufficiently for all to hear the diminuendo passages of his beautiful voice". (NCH 18.4.1863). The Lancashire Relief Fund had been established in order to help those in Britain who had become a victim of the stoppage of cotton imports from the Southern states of America (due to the Civil War), with the result that numerous labourers in the mills were laid off. 29.4.1863 (Wedn) Performances by the amateurs of the Royal Artillery. No titles of plays were recorded. Th: Theatre Royal (G) R: In consequence of the "great success" a "Second Fashionable Night” would be given on May 4th (NCH 2.5.1863). 4.5.1863 (Thur) As on 29.4.1863. 1.8.1863 (Sat) The last of a series of performances by Mr. Smythe's company. Soloists: Miss Amelia Bailey (singing) and Martin Simonsen (violin) Th. N.N. (H) Page 240 Page 241 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 222 the stage properties were unexceptionable". (NCH 22.10.1864) 15,10-21. 10. 1864 H.J. BYRON: "Fra Diavolo" (1858) T: Burlesque burletta (1 act) H.J. BYRON: "The Maid and the Magpie T: Burlesque burletta (1 act), and other pieces. C: Lewis A.D.C. Th: N.N. (I R: NCH 22,10,1864 17.10.1864 (Mon) Concert by Mr. Desvachez (violin) and some local amateurs Th: Shanghai Club R: Another musical evening was given by Mr. DESVACHEZ in the recently completed Shanghai Club building. On this occasion "the audience was numerous and seemed to fully appreciate M. DESVACHEZ's musical talents”. (NCH 22.10.1864) 22.10.-28. 10. 1864 H.J. BYRON: "The Bride of Abydos" (1858) T: Burlesque extravaganza (1 act) N.N.: "The Lady of Lyons”, (No author mentioned, so it may have been original play by Lytton or the burlesque by H.J. Byron (1868)), and other pieces. C: Lewis A.D.C. Th: N.N. (l R: For some actors of the Lewis troupe the strains of appearing every evening on the stage had become too much, for in the Herald it was "regretted that in thus making strenuous efforts to afford satisfaction to their audiences, two of the most promising members of the Company have become so severely indisposed as to be unable for some time to appear in public" (NCH 29.10.1864). 5.11.1864 (Sat) (See: Theatrical Advertisement, No. 10) Amateur concert in aid of the repair fund of the "Hongque Free Episcopal Church”, the "Shanghai Vocal Quartette Club" and Mr. Marquis Chisholm, piano, Programme: 1. V. BELLINI: "La Sonnambula", duet (presumably 'Prendi l'anel ti dono' from act I) arranged for piano and harmonium by David Hermann ENGEL (1816-1877) 2. Sir Henry BISHOP: "Foresters sound the cheerful horn" (glee) 3. Marquis CHISHOLM: "Japanese Fantasia” 4. MULLER: "Maying" (sic; quartet) 5. Ballad "Arleen Aroom” 6. Philipp Friedrich SILCHER (1799-1860): "The Miller's Daughter” (quartet) 7. G. VERDI: "Rigoletto", duet ('E il sol dell' anima', act I; 'Piangi, fanciulla', act I), arranged for piano by John George CALLCOT (1821-1895) 8. Friedrich Wilhelm KÜCKEN (1810-1882): **Soldier's Love" (glee) 9. Valentin Eduard BECKER (1814-1890); "Cheer Up Companions” (choral march) 10. RADETSKA: "There's music in the air" (quartet) 11. G. DONIZETTI: "Lucrezia Borgia", arrangement for flute and piano by JAMES 12. Heinrich WERNER (1800-1833): "War Song" (glee) 13. CAXTON: "Breathe soft, ye winds" 14. William HORSLEY (and not F. Mendelssohn as stated in the advertisement): **By Celia's Arbour" (song) 15. Sir Henry BISHOP: "Sleep gentle lady" (glee) 16. William Vincent WALLACE (1813-1865): "Lurine", duet arranged for piano and ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1994 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zk522640g 194 Baddeley, John Frederick (1854-1940) ed, Russia, Mongolia, China, London Macmillan, 1919 (NY B Franklin 1967 mostly memoirs of Russian envoys from beginning of 17th century to end of reign of Alexander I). Baikov, Feodor Isakovich, An Account of Two Voyages. First of Feodor Isakovitz Backhoff to China, Second Zachary Wagener, a Native of Dresden also in China, in Churchill, Awnsham, compilers, A Collection of Voyages and Travels. London, 1744, v 2, 474-478 Ball, Benjamin Lincoln, Rambles in Eastern Asia, Including China During Several Years' Residence (1848-1850), Boston J French, 1856. Barnett, Eugene Epperson. 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League of Nations, 1932 Bell, John, A Journey From St Petersburg to Pekin 1719-22, edited with an Introduction by J L Stevenson, Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. (NY Barnes and Noble reprint 1966) Bennett, Adrian A, John Fryer the Introduction of Western Science and Technology into Nineteenth-Century China, Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1967 Bergeron, Marie Ina, Letters a Yeou-wen, Souvenirs de Chine, Tours Mame, 1973 Berry-Hart, Alice, Ching-a-Ring-a-Ring-Ching or Three Victorian Sisters in Shanghai, London. 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The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai 1938-1945, New York Yeshiva University Press, 1976 Lamberton, Mary, St John's University Shanghai, 1879-1951, New York United Board for Christian Colleges in China, 1955 Lamont, Florence, Far Eastern Diary 1920, New York Horizon Press, 1951 Latourette, Kenneth S, A History of Christian Missions in China, New York Macmillan, 1929 - Beyond the Ranges, an Autobiography, Grand Rapids. William Erdman Publishers, 1967 + Le Coy, Albert von, Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan, London Allen and Unwin, 1926 (Hong Kong Reprint. 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Edhiel, Hua Nan College: the Women's College of South China, New York: United Board for Christian Colleges in China, 1956 Walmsley, Lewis C, West China Union University, New York: United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, 1974 Watson, Andrew, Living in China, New York: Littlefield, 1977 Page 225 Page 226 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1995 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/95941j25g 118 only they could communicate with and work for the foreign traders, A familiar story is emerging. In the first of his series of articles in the China Mail of 1958 entitled "Pidgin Languages", Robert Wallace Thompson theorized: “In 'simplifying', most speakers tend to use the language one employs when speaking to a small child. Hence the superficial similarity of Pidgin speech and baby talk." I do not believe in this theory. The point is, the young makee-larn had to learn quickly. Any note-taking was confined by necessity to Chinese characters. The sounds had to fit the writing system available as best they could, and there was simply no time for the extreme complexities of English morphology, much of which was rooted in phonetic differences that Chinese people could in any case not hear, or only reproduce with great difficulty. As it was, the foreign traders were almost universally impressed by the calibre and honesty of their Chinese domestic and Factory staff. For a business season which lasted a few months a year, no-one was about to quibble over ropey English. The most that was required was to keep the vocabulary of daily life to a moderate base of general and domestic terms, not to make great demands on the use of complicated grammar, and accept whatever Chinesifications became current. How did consistent Chinese forms of English become current? Both Leland and Hunter have quoted the same answer, and it must be presumed to be broadly correct: — "In the Canton Bookshops near the Factories was sold a small pamphlet called "Devil's Talk". On the cover was a drawing of a foreigner in the dress of the middle of the last century - three-cornered hat, coat with wide skirts, breeches and long stockings, shoes with buckles, lace sleeves, and in his hand a cane. I have now one of these pamphlets before me. It commences thus, "yun" and under is its "barbarian" definition, expressed in another Chinese word whose sound is "man". After many examples of this kind come words of two syllables-thus: "kum-yat", with their foreign meaning expressed by two other Chinese characters pronounced "to-teay" today-and so on to sentences, for which the construction of the language is peculiarly ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1997 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/wp98g7579 19 # THE CRAFT OF THE BAMBOO SCAFFOLDER DAN WATERS Admired by Taoists for its resilient beauty, tenacity and flexibility, bamboo symbolises endurance and the lifestyle of an upright, virtuous gentleman. It has rings marking, as it were, important events in a person's life. It is fast-growing and has great powers of survival. Not long after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, on 6 August 1945, bamboo on the devastated site was said to have sprouted new shoots. Bamboo also, with classical, delicate leaves like painting on porcelain, bends but seldom breaks. The tender sprouts are a popular vegetable. With its unbounded usefulness it is employed to make waterpipes, poles for hanging out washing, mats, incense sticks, wide-brimmed hats to offer protection from the sun, shields used by riot police, chopsticks, pillows, divination blocks for temples, carved ornaments and countless other types of utensils. The elderly will have slept in bamboo cradles as children. Their coffins will be conveyed at their funerals by bearers using bamboo carrying poles. James Stewart Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong civil servant who played a major part in the taking over of the New Territories by Britain from China at the end of the last century, described bamboo in a large, undated notebook, as follows:2 To start with, the bamboo has seven virtues of its very own: it is clean and unspotted in itself; a sheaf covers the stem as it pierces the dark earth, so the bamboo has protection from the world; being hollow it is symbolical...of a pure heart; it is strong and unyielding; the stem being divided into segments is orderly; the stalk is pure green without blemish; and is lastly eternal and enduring. 3 Although the Victorian naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace,3 described bamboo as one of nature's most valuable gifts, the main purpose of this paper is to look at bamboo as a material for scaffolding, together with the methods of training and the role of the bamboo scaffolder. A legendary sage named Yau Chao Shi is said to have lived 5,000 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1997 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/wp98g7579 31 Certainly, for heavy duty scaffolding laid out on a grid pattern, say when constructing a flyover and for other civil engineering work, metal scaffolding has advantages. Metal has already taken over in some cases from timber in areas such as hoardings around building sites and for site offices, when containers are sometimes utilised. Also, on large projects managed by the Government Housing Department, precast concrete units are used together with gondolas. This does away with much scaffolding. Although the change from bamboo scaffolding to metal has been much slower than many people expected over the past 40 years, especially with a limited number of trainee scaffolders entering the trade, the changing to metal can be expected to continue. Nevertheless, one can expect bamboo scaffolding, with its many advantages, to be in use for many years to come. Acknowledgements The author is grateful to Mr Albert Tong Yat Chu, Mr Cho Hon Chiu and scaffolding instructor Master Chor Keung, all of the Construction Industry Training Authority, for the information and photographs they supplied. The author is also grateful to Mr Jimmy C. M. Yuen, of the Occupational Safety and Health Council and to Mr S. L. Lam, Senior Architect of the Architectural Services Department, for their assistance. REFERENCES 1. TC Lai, Hasem Role. Philip Mao, Hings Chinese (Hong Kong, 1971), pp 13 and 14 2. Shrona Anbe, Fhustle ontd Bamboo, the Life and Times of St. James Stewart Lockhart, Oxford University Press (1989), p. 58 3. Alfred Russel Wallace, FRS (1823-1913) British naturalist, widely travelled, had many publications to his credit. See Chambers Biographical dictionary (Revised edition 1961) 4. Ho So, The Craft of Chinese Scaffolding, Ho So Kee Construction and Scaffolding Co (Hong Kong, circa 1974), p 3 5. Naomi Yin-yin Szeto, 'Bamboo Scaffolding”, of Hearts and Hands Hong Kong's Traditional Trades and Crafts, ed Joseph Ting, Urban Council Museum of History (Hong Kong, 1995), P 219 6. Ho, loc cit 7. Anthony Walker and Stephen M. Rowlinson, The Building of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Construction Association, Hong Kong University Press (1990), p 121-131 ================================================================================