94 NAMES AND NICKNAMES OF THE 



of our very best Chairmen of Council have been Americans. 

 Even during the great flag discussion of the forties and fifties 

 the correspondence was entirely friendly though formal. 

 But, of course, the term "Anglo-American" was not inclu- 

 sive enough to cover all foreigners, and so little by little the 

 word "International" came into general use officially. 



Native names for portions of the present settlements are 

 common even on foreign lips. Everybody knows Hongkew, 

 though it is not everybody who knows that there is a Li and 

 a Wai, an inner and an outer Hongkew. Still fewer are 

 aware that the "Hong" in that name refers to the rainbow, 

 and is doubtless highly poetic to native minds. Yangtzepoo 

 we have already referred to. Pootung is on everybody's lips. 

 Its literal meaning is "east of the Poo" or reach of the river. 

 Tunkadoo ( Ifi % fflL), is another well-know T n name typical of 

 many. Its last syllable, "doo" is the dialect word for ferry, 

 and the whole name means the "Ferry of the Tung family." 

 Vay, or Fan Wong Doo ($£ 3: M), 1 is the King Fan ferry at 

 Jessfield. In a deltaic country, ' of course, ferries are 

 abundant. So are bridges. "Pahsienjau" (A filial), will 

 occur to the mind in connexion with these. Probably it is 

 named after the eight Taoist immortals rather than after 

 eight unknown fairies, as is sometimes thought. Across the 

 Yangkingpang of early days, at the end of the Fukien Eoad, 

 there was a bridge known to foreigners as Taylor's Bridge, 

 from an American Missionary who lived close by, but to 

 natives as the Cheng Chia Mu Chiao (§8 W. Tfc g$ ), or the 

 wooden bridge of the Cheng family. 



Sinza ( ^f 1$) and Louza ( 3£ TM ) mean respectively the 

 new and the old lock or watergates, from which the neigh- 

 bourhoods in question gained their names. It was across 

 the old stone bridge at Sinza that on the 19th June, 1842, 

 British troops passed to their occupation of the native city. 

 They had marched up from Woosung. The Woo in the word 

 last mentioned, W T oosung (^< #&), is a very ancient name, 

 known from the second millenium B.C. as the title of a state 

 which included such portions of Kiangsu as were then in 

 existence. 



A word or two regarding some other w r ell-known water 

 names will not be out of place here. Deltaic lands, left to 

 the tender mercies of the streams that make them, are 

 subject to great, sometimes rapid, changes. Historic and 

 other proof of this in the case of the Yangtze may be found 

 in various places. 



Probably the Indian Brahma ; from a temple nearby. — Ed. 



