Visit to '' Little Ilong-kong T 379 



Through the kindness and interest of Dr. Ilarland (since 

 deceased), surgeon-in-chief of the colony, some of the mem- 

 bers of the Expedition were enabled to make corporeal 

 nieasm'ements in the great prison, the inmates of which come 

 from the most various parts of the empire, as well as in the 

 hospital, upon a number of individuals of either sex, all " fair 

 specimens of the Chinese race," as Dr. Harland assured them, 

 the results of which will be found in the anthropological 

 section of the Novara publications. 



Before the frigate left Hong-kong, despite the insecurity 

 of public affairs, several excursions were made to the south 

 side of the island, to Canton, and to the Portuguese settle- 

 ment of Macao, which proved as interesting as they were 

 satisfactory. 



In the course of their peregrinations about the mountains 

 on the island, as far as the fishing village on the south side of 

 the island, known as Little Hong-kong (sweet- waters), the na- 

 turalists of the Expedition were accompanied by Dr. Hance, the 

 botanist, and the missionary, Dr. Lobscheid, both thoroughly 

 acquainted with the Chinese language. Little as the pretty 

 name of this small settlement, founded so far back as 1668, 

 is aj)plicable to the entire island, it yet corresponds well, and 

 is eminently suitable, to the smiling valley, entirely shut in 

 by lofty rocks, in which lies wretched Little Hong-kong. A 

 beautiful wood filled with tufts of flowers, forming for the 

 labours of the botanist a rich supply of the most splendid 

 plants, and refreshed by copious springs of water from the 



