File:Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan (1857) (14782221864).jpg

Identifier: narrativeofexped05perr (find matches)
Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
The Chinese have three temples, and the Mahommedans a mosque atHong Kong. The island rises at the north in a range of mountains, the base of whichterminates near the sea, leaving a narrrow edge, along which the town ofVictoria extends for two or three miles. There is a large trade in opiumbetween India and Hong Kong, it being imported into the latter place, andthence smuggled into China along the coast. There is no very extensive agricultural culture at Hong Kong, as theland for the most part is rocky, and of little fertility. On the southern partof the island, however, the soil is somewhat more favorable than that on thenorthern, and it contains a single valley which is tolerably productive.There is an abundance of excellent water. The climate is hot, and as thealternations of rain and heat keep up an active decomposition in the marshydistricts of the island, they render it quite unwholesome. The southern sideof Hong Kong is the more healthful, as it is refreshed and purified by the
Text Appearing After Image:
BARBEE BOY, HONG KONG. CANTON. 159 southwestern monsoon, but being destitute of good harbors, tlie English wereobliged to fix their settlement on the north. The laboring class and the small traders are chiefly Chinese, who areever on the alert for gain. Their bazaars invite the passing stranger onevery street, and the itinerant artisans go busily tramping in their dailyroutine. There are many striking figures among them, with their peculiarcostumes and novel implements of labor. Our artist caught a vivid impres-sion of the Hong Kong barber boy. On leaving Hong Kong, the Mississippi went to Macao, and thence toWhampoa, on the Canton river, where she anchored. In this river thereare certain bars, and it is necessary not only to take a pilot, but to employsmall Chinese boats, which are stationed at the sides of the crooked channel,and on the bars alluded to, as guides. As the boats receive a dollar eachfor this service, they are called * dollar boats. Whampoa, which is theanchorage for a

Note About Images