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1850s impressions of Hong Kong by English visitors reprinted in "The Chater Collection"

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2017-03-19 19:08

I was interested to read the following the accounts of British visitors to Hong Kong in the 1850s reprinted in "Sir Paul Chater. The Chater Collection. Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong," by James Orange, 1924.

The first is by Laurence Oliphant and taken from "The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59":

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