By Patricia Lim
ISBN-10: 9622099904
ISBN-13: 9789622099906
The e-book has recorded the inscriptions on all 8,000 graves within the HK Cemetery to supply a wealthy description of existence in Hong Kong throughout the first a hundred years nearly from its colonization and an excellent sequence of anecdotes.
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The path between the Cemetery and the racecourse was narrow and men out exercising on horseback in the early mornings had no compunction about taking their horses into the Cemetery grounds and over the graves when they wanted to pass the slower members of the fraternity. As late as the mid-1860s, it was reported that until recently the colonial chaplain was in the habit of turning in his ponies to graze there. indd 17 28/12/2010 4:14 PM 18 Forgotten Souls Furthermore cemeteries were often neglected.
Waterfront would be dragged (By courtesy Martyn Gregory, cat. 81, p. indd 34 28/12/2010 4:14 PM The Early Settlers, the First Opium War and Its Aftermath 35 straight across Queen’s Road into the waiting godowns. On any one day, about thirty visiting brigs, barques, schooners or steam ships would be anchored in the harbour together with visiting ships of the Royal Navy and two or three permanently anchored opium-receiving ships. Many of the vessels arriving at 9 Hong Kong would have carried opium.
Their merchant fleet left Whampoa for the anchorage between Kowloon and Hong Kong, where they were watched by Admiral Kuan’s fleet of war junks. The situation was further inflamed by the death of a Chinese villager in a drunken quarrel between a group of villagers from Tsim Sha Tsui and some British sailors. This led to the British refusal to render anyone up to Chinese authorities for execution and the ensuing refusal by the Chinese to provide supplies of food and water to the British fleet. The first shot was fired in Kowloon Bay by Captain Henry Smith on 4 September 1839.
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