Blue waters and green and the Far East today . Kong is yonder. [ 109 ]. HONG KONG. Never the lotus closes, never the wild fowl wake,But a soul goes out on the east-wind, that died for Eng-lands or woman or suckling, mother or bride or on the bones of the English the English flag is stayed. On a wide hillside overlooking the Happy Valleyand shadowed by the mighty Peak of Hong Konglies the English cemetery, and reading there the agesof the dead, and marking the number that lie there,I realize anew the price that England pays for em-pire. Edwards Bruce, aged seven, Chas. Albert
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . Kong is yonder. [ 109 ]. HONG KONG. Never the lotus closes, never the wild fowl wake,But a soul goes out on the east-wind, that died for Eng-lands or woman or suckling, mother or bride or on the bones of the English the English flag is stayed. On a wide hillside overlooking the Happy Valleyand shadowed by the mighty Peak of Hong Konglies the English cemetery, and reading there the agesof the dead, and marking the number that lie there,I realize anew the price that England pays for em-pire. Edwards Bruce, aged seven, Chas. Albert Bruce, aged three, Mary, the loved wife of , aged twenty-seven, and so on. This city of thedead already outnumbers the living, and Victoria,or British Hong Kong, is but sixty years old. After the Opium War of 1840, England secured thisisland, where already there was a Chinese years ago she secured a ninety-nine year lease,as it is euphemistically called, on a tract of forty-fivethousand square miles lying back of Kowloon, and [110]. HONG KONG her sphere of influence extends up the Pearl river,to Canton, where there is another British settlement,over the West river, the rich deltas and water-waysof both. Hong Kong is a crown colony ruled by a Governorand Council, appointed from home. There are sometwenty thousand foreigners (of whom only threehundred are Americans) and about two hundredthousand Chinese. You doubt this statement, for the whole island isless than three miles long and narrow, and the townitself clings to a narrow shore against the mountainwalls. However, it is true, for the Chinese occupyHong Kong at a ratio of 640,000 to the acre. Canyou believe that? It is inconceivable till you haveseen it, and the Encyclopedia Britannica is my au-thority. After you have seen a real Chinese city,not an imitation Chinatown in America, you willnot doubt it. We will discuss it more at lengthwhen we get to Canton. I believe that I have said something about beau-tiful harb
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