CHINESE NAMES OF STREETS. &c. 



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Chinese Character! 



Remarks as to Meaning; . 



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(i) ' Ma-kau street.' 



(So called because the Cantonese prostitutes 



liveinthe street; cf. Hongkong street, 



Singapore.) 



(ii) ' New Street.' 



(It is a remarkable coincidence that Cam- 

 pbell street, Penang, Fraser street, 

 Singapore and Java lane, Malacca, — all 

 streets connected largely with houses 

 of ill fame — -are all known to Chinese 

 as 'new street.') 



(i) ' Cock-pit street.' 



(So called because a cockpit ' glangang ' 

 used to exist here.) 



' Kampong Pantei, ' i.e., the village on the 

 shore. (The Chinese have simply 

 adopted the local name. The name is 

 also applied to the adjoining ends of 

 2nd and 4th Cross streets.) 



(The Hokkiens use transliterations of the 

 Malay name, but the Cantonese trans- 

 late into ' Big ' and 'Little ' Klebang. 



' Kubu corner.' 'Kubu street, ' 



(i) ' Sepoys' plain.' 



(The sepoys' barracks were formerly in this 

 street.) 



R. A. Soc, No. 42, 1904, 



