Identifier: roundworldletter00fogg_0 (find matches)
Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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us. Themountain rises abruptly from the waters edge, and is crowned by Victoria Peak, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. The houses are built tier above tier, and from the water it seems a city of palaces, stretch-ins? far up the hill side, and for more than two miles along the shore. Beyond the town, on the left, I see the Happy Valley, wh«>re I can catch a glimpse of the English cemetery embowered in tropical foliage; for with all its beauty of location Hong Kong is not healthy, and many an American and European who has come to this Eastern land in search of a fortune, remains here in possession only of six feet of Chinese earth. Landing here is but a repetition of the scene at Shanghai, but I have learned something by experience. A hundred sampans surrounded the steamer, some manned by males, tut the greater number by females, and the shrill pipes cf the women drown the bass tcne3 of their male competitors. Lean over the rail, and before leaving the deck close my contract with a young Ama-
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105 zon to take me ashore, and have no further trouble. She fought her way to ray pile of luggage, mavfully shouldered trunk and valise, and I had only to follow in her wake to the boat., the crew of which, from a family likeness, I judged to beher mother and sister. In five minutes moreI am landed at a fine granite pier, and fol-low six coolies carrying my luggage, whichwould be a light load for one Irish porter,to the Hong Kong Hotel, a spacious, airyouilding, with wide verandas extending round each of its five stories. This city, which is sometimes called the St. Helena of the Chinese seas, has grown very rapidly, and has a most motley population, made up of every European and Asiatic nation. It is not a part of the Chinese Empire, but the island on which it is situated, containing about thirty square miles, was ceded by the Chinese government to Great Britain thirty years ago, and forms the colony of Victoria, with an English Governor and a full set of officials appointed and sent out from home.T

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