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Title: Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Penfield, Frederic Courtland, 1855-1922
Subjects: East Asia -- Description and travel India -- Description and travel Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : George Bell and Sons New York : Century co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. On the25th of August in 1905 the downpour registeredeleven and one-quarter inches—this almost turnedHong Kong into an eastern Venice. November,December, January and February are the pleasantmonths, statistically, in Hong Kong. The Briton has displayed his sturdiness of char-acter by forcing a home in Hong Kong, for naturefashioned the north shore of this island to be anabiding-place for birds and animals. Adventur-ers from the British Isles have won a plateau fromthe sea by piling and filling in, and by executingengineering feats that have converted a precipi-tous mountain side to blossom with villa sites androads and foot-paths leading to them. A railwayscaling the mountain height at a topsy-turvy angledid the rest. Hong Kong is a splendid example ofwhat determined men possessed of the colonizingspirit may accomplish. The founders of Venicedid no more in the lagoons of the Adriatic. Aman responsible for much of Hong Kongs fillingin and excavation is Sir Paul Chator, a British 232
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Island Links subject of Armenian birth, gifted to an unusualdegree with foresight. He has done more for thecolony than any other person—and Hong Konghas made him a millionaire. The legal name of the city is Victoria, but thisfact apparently is known only to the postmasterand at Government House. Were a visitor tospeak of Victoria, the dweller would believe thatsomething back in England, or in Australia, wasmeant. When China ceded the rocky isle of HongKong to Great Britain in 1842 it was the haunt offisherfolk and pirates prosecuting their callings inthe estuary of the Canton River. The acquisitionof Hong Kong was due to the refusal of the Chi-nese to allow British traders to live peaceably atCanton. Driven out of the city, they took tempor-ary refuge in the Portuguese settlement of Ma-cao; but, being pursued by Chinese hostility, theofficial trade superintendent transferred the Eng-lish depot to Hong Kong, which was forthwith oc-cupied by a British expeditionary force, and, atthe e

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