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 watersedge, and is crowned by Victoria Peak,seventeen hundred feet above the sea. Thehouees are built tier above tier, and fromthe water it seems a city of palacss, stretch-ins? far up the hill side, and for more thantwo miles along the shore. Beyond thetown, on the left, I see the Happy Valley,wh«>re I can catch a glimpse of the Engliohcemetery embowered in tropical foliage;for with all its beauty of location HongKong is not healthy, and many an Ameri-can and European who has come to thisEa«tern land in search of a fortune, remainshere in possession only of six feet of Chineseearth. Landing here is but a repetition cf thescene at Shanghai, but I have learned some,thing by experience. A hundred sampanssurrounded the steamer, some manned bymales, tut the greater number by females,and the shrill pipes cf the women drownthe bass tcne3 of their male competitors. Iean over the rail, and before leaving thedeck close my contract with a young Ama-
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105 zon to take me ashore, and have no furthertrouble. She fought her way to ray pile ofluggage, mavfully shouldered trunk andvalise, and I had only to follow in herw»ke 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 extendinground each of its five stories. This city,which is sometimes called the St, Helena ofthe Chinese seas, has grown very rapidly,and has a most motley population, made upcf every European and Asiatic nation. Itis not a part of the Chinese Empire, but theisland on which it is situated, cantainingabout thirty square miles, was ceded by theChinese government to Great Britain thirtyyears ago, and forms the colony of Victoria,with an English Governor and a full set ofofficials appointed and sent out from home.T

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