A Woman's Journey Round The World, From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Minor By Ida Pfeiffer
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In Our Case, However, The Night Passed Without Any Incident Worth
Noting; And On The Morning Of The 10th Of July, Having First Taken
On Board A Pilot, We Proceeded To Hong-Kong, A Distance Of Sixty
Nautical Miles.
The voyage proved highly interesting, on account of
the varied succession of bays, creeks, and groups of islands which
we had to pass.
The English obtained Hong-Kong from the Chinese at the conclusion of
the war in 1842, and founded the port of Victoria, which contains at
present a large number of palace-like houses built of stone.
The Europeans who have settled here, and who are not more than two
or three hundred in number, are far from being contented, however,
as trade is not half as good as they at first expected it would be.
Every merchant is presented by the English government with a plot of
ground, on condition of his building on it. Many of them erected,
as I before mentioned, splendid edifices, which they would now be
glad to sell for half the cost price, or even very frequently to
give the ground and foundations, without asking the smallest sum in
return.
I resolved to stop only a few days in Victoria, as it was my wish to
arrive at Canton as soon as possible.
In addition to the great politeness he had previously shown me,
Captain Jurianse conferred another favour, by allowing me, during my
stay here, to live and lodge on board his ship, thereby saving me an
expense of 16s. or 24s. {91a} a day; and, besides this, the boat
which he had hired for his own use was always at my disposal.
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