East by West: A Journey in the Recess, Volume 2Bentley, 1885 - 361 pages |
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Page 110
... a quiet Sunday evening , the fourth day after leaving Nagasaki , we stole into Hong- kong harbour . It was almost a pitch - dark night , and there were some anxious moments for the captain on the bridge , making his way 110 EAST BY WEST .
... a quiet Sunday evening , the fourth day after leaving Nagasaki , we stole into Hong- kong harbour . It was almost a pitch - dark night , and there were some anxious moments for the captain on the bridge , making his way 110 EAST BY WEST .
Page 111
... Hongkong lay right ahead , long rows of lights against the dark shadow of the hill on which it stands . One light , far up the hill , was in motion - doubtless the lamps of the carriage of some distant diner - out returning homewards ...
... Hongkong lay right ahead , long rows of lights against the dark shadow of the hill on which it stands . One light , far up the hill , was in motion - doubtless the lamps of the carriage of some distant diner - out returning homewards ...
Page 112
... Hongkong had to show the foreigners might easily be seen in a day . It is a lively , bustling town , though as compared with its former bounding prosperity Ichabod is written on its wall . It is the same story here as at Yokohama ...
... Hongkong had to show the foreigners might easily be seen in a day . It is a lively , bustling town , though as compared with its former bounding prosperity Ichabod is written on its wall . It is the same story here as at Yokohama ...
Page 113
... Hongkong has its Simla close at hand . The Peak , a hill eighteen hundred feet high , standing at the back of the town , is the regular residence of the European com- munity during the summer months . The governor has a fine house there ...
... Hongkong has its Simla close at hand . The Peak , a hill eighteen hundred feet high , standing at the back of the town , is the regular residence of the European com- munity during the summer months . The governor has a fine house there ...
Page 115
... Hongkong mer- chants must look out for their own interests . Within forty - eight hours of this declaration being made , well - informed residents of Hong- kong declined to believe that China meant business . This arose less from an ...
... Hongkong mer- chants must look out for their own interests . Within forty - eight hours of this declaration being made , well - informed residents of Hong- kong declined to believe that China meant business . This arose less from an ...
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Page 272 - Somnauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory; the proof of your superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus. To you, Princes and Chiefs of Sirhind, of Rajwarra, of Malwa, and of Guzerat, I shall commit this glorious trophy of successful war.
Page 272 - Our victorious army bears the gates of the temple of Somnauth in triumph from Afghanistan, and the despoiled tomb of Sultan Mahomed looks upon the ruins of Ghuznee. The insult of eight hundred years is at last avenged. The gates of the temple of Somnauth, so long the memorial of your humiliation, are become the proudest record of your national glory ; the proof of your superiority in arms over the nations beyond the Indus.
Page 256 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Page 238 - ... the Residency building as we approach it — on what, indeed, was once the lawn — has been raised an artificial mound, its slopes covered with flowering shrubs, its summit bearing the monumental obelisk, on the pedestal of which is the terse, appropriate inscription: — "In memory of Major-General Sir Henry Lawrence and the brave men who fell in defence of the Residency.
Page 165 - They do not even know,' the indignant colonist said by way of climax, ' that Hong-kong is an island.' That is a just and unanswerable reproach, and by way of averting its adaptation to Bombay, I hasten to say that the city is actually an island, extending over an area of twenty-two square miles. It is one of the few valuable acquisitions that came with 'the Stuarts, being ceded to this country in 1661 as part of the dowry of the Portuguese princess Catharine on her marriage with Charles II. Some...
Page 197 - When Babylon was struggling with Nineveh for •supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persia, or Cyrus had added lustre to the Persian monarchy, or Nebuchadnezzar had captured Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of Judaea had been carried into captivity, she had already risen to greatness, if not to glory.
Page 254 - Bound the chancel is a row of memorial tablets, set there " to the glory of God and in memory of more than a thousand Christian people who met their deaths hard by between the 6th of June and the 15th of July, 1857.
Page 179 - ... takes it to the printer, selecting her own colours. These often seem bold regarded by themselves ; but, gracefully wrapped around the swarthy limbs and shoulders, and mingling with the particoloured throng, they are enchanting. After a pretty extensive journey through the largest towns in North-West India, I do not remember to have seen among the lowest classes five women who were badly dressed, and these exceptions were probably Persians. The innate art taste of the natives of India is shown...
Page 269 - ... them are filled with fountains. Though the building is an incrustation of gold, marble, and precious stones, water is still its most beautiful ornament. Within these fairy precincts lie the gardens, still overrun with roses and jasmine vines, in the midst of which fountains are playing. There is also a court, paved with squares of black and white marble, so as to form &pachisi board.
Page 174 - Parsee in high glazed hat, white cotton bed-gown, and bright red trousers, hailing his deity in the rising sun ; whilst on the sward close by was an Englishman in flannels and sun-helmet diligently riding round, taking his exercise at the only hour possible in this Christmas weather. The low wall which flanks Queen's Road at this part serves other purposes than that of patrol ground of the ants. It is a favourite sleeping quarter for the fastidious native who finds his overcrowded dwelling too hot....