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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in. HOW HONG-KONQ APPEARED. How Great Britain came to own it?Fragrant Streams?British Dignity?Pleasant Reception?Town of Victoria?The Chinese Portion?Coolies?Foreign Buildings?The Barracks?The Church?Morrison Hill? Happy Valley ?Morrison School?Mr. John Morrison?Rev. Samuel Brown?Mr. William A. Macy?Rev. Charles Gutzlaff, D.D. This island belongs to Great Britain, having been ceded to that power by the Emperor of China, as a part of the indemnity claimed at the close of the Opium war, in 1842. Although now universally called in English, Hong-Kong, yet its real name in Chinese, is Hiang-Kiang, and it means Fragrant Streams. But the only streams we saw were those which ran down the rocky hillsides after a rain. They gleamed and flashed in the sunlight like threads of molten silver, and were certainly beautiful if not fragrant. The outline of the island, on the side toward the mainland, is crescent-shaped; its two horns, several miles apart, approaching within a half mile or even less of the opposite shore, and its intervening or receding portion forming, together with a similar conformation of the coast over against it, one of the finest harbors in the world. It embraces in the broad sweep of its arms, a magnificent sheet ofwater, of sufficient extent to float the whole navy of Great Britain. While we were entering the harbor, where we found a dozen or fifteen other foreign vessels, mostly British and American, the British harbor-master, wearing a blue cloth cap, with a gilt band around it, came off to us in his barge, pulled by six oars, in the hands of English sailors. He assumed the most important airs and directed us where to anchor, with a display of authority that was truly edifying. An awfully dignified little midshipman, with a huge cocked h...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459078062 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459078063 |
| Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 224 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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