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NOTES :—Kthnographical Sketches of the
Hakka Chinese, 49—Devonian Fousils in
‘China, 60—Classifors.—Chinese Gram-
mar, 61—Yellow ax an Imporial Colour,
‘52—Notes on the Topography of some of|
fhe Loctite in Mani oF Southern
China, mentioned by Marco Polo, 52,—|
Chinese Postical Romance, 64
+—Mongol and Mog
Tuas Satie Law of Hontong
fos of Chinn elias arse Pole ted
cf Bhan 60—Books
, Oapls of Chane on
Soo ia Chin BL
Noroes ro Connsaroxpuxes,
Bors warts,
Aovasursuere,
Hotes,
ETHNOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF
‘THE HAK-KA OBINESE.
[Four of the papers, of which the follow-
ing ia the first in_an’ amended form, have
‘already appeared in the columns of a news
areca
Titer eet te
Es Eronnanrsa ce
Focus gaara aakae
SSE Sees
he
oink
Tatar of | ain
‘The population of the Canton Provins is
st the provnt time as mized as the popolar
ion of Hogland was somo time after the
Norman ecoquiet” Not reckoning te low
sPogond, Seton Easony, Danes and
= ons, see
Normans. ‘Tho Britons wore driven back
{hte the maoantaina nthe ramotaet corners
fay siweica with the other fore,
fod the "i
aah eee
; x
8 there ware whole distri -
ltricta or coun
tho invaders,
‘and manners the
of iat the dea treo,
in ‘now-a-days syle Gemaalres Ponts
fd snd who camo nobody knows when, bare
ftamamed the ownership of the Provinoe,
ab ike otbrinveder oo tidirent cy
ho about five or sx couturies ago crosod
{a trontiors of tho Canton Province, and
‘vho are now-s-days distinguished by the
ames Rak-ke 3 9 and Hok-lo ij
{or h'sou-chow-men). ‘Theao tro races ere
te rom he ont, er Sasson Danes and
HRormane were, in aoguage a wall ts in
baracter and mangers. ‘he Hok-loe (or
fathe NE. popidn of Krung Sang lie ho
Danes, kept for the most part oat the sea
cast end tho banks of the
tad dul not spread far over the Interior of
tte Province’ while tbe Haka like the
[Rormane, spread all over the coustry.
‘Though the Punts have on the whole
tained the vwnerehip of the ground, there
zo at proseat in tha Canton Province whole
Cistricts, even wholo departments, bearing50 NOTES AND QUERIES.
in la ‘and manners the precise type | department the Puntis have retained ascea-
ip apne, sodas, be re, deere Pen ered
‘whilst there are others where the Puntis|tho exception of only one district, the
as
wails, in the
triota of tho Province
‘edopted more of lom of the language Tungkwan district, where the Hok 10 ele-
teacher of to iter inrader | ent pra
inthe aoutb-eastora districts of the
Canton Provinoe the Hok-o element pre-
‘north-eastern. districta the In the northern the Hakka
"ka element ; but in all the otber dis are found scettered in small numbers all
ge fin Hake sr ovr te hia nd motninng, bat herein
Dearly everywhere to sither dis. i
Dersed in amall villages betwen the hills
End paying ground-rent to the Bs
congregated “in Tanger villages, an
‘prevaila, There are teu other depart.
mata in the Canton Province, forning ite
northern and scuthwestera extremities,
iy | he Pani” sn soars Spar.
‘continually fighting with the Puntis for| have not got an; wh ‘Hok-fos
Sroerneriptr is bland fels ovoped|areto be found scatierel’ Here snd thare
by them,
{i we look at the map of the Canton Pro- | With
the exstern corner the | we can a
‘ince, we observe
ready
‘Orreco-chow department, with it nine dix- | in what direction the influx of Hak-has and
‘ricta, One of them,
ia throughoat inhabited by
reat by Hok-los. Now look at
Gopartimont, named Kis
s
ey
prea
Sarees,
Same es
dentees ihe Satie!
See Be iho, alts
ther Hok- | Fook-lon
sept by ioes| mountain and aly spending
‘mare far-| mountainous aod by distriats inthe north
(wechow [eastern and northern part of the Canton
in thro af | province.
‘Kval-|" That this is not only an hypothesis, bat
district, | Holos into the Canton Province originally
ook. ‘Both of these races came from
ib Month part the Ha ba probally from
ang. aa their nameulrendy
indicates, from the Fo-kien Provinca ‘The
‘migrated aloog. the
const and along the banks of the East river,
‘whilst tho Hak-kaa followed the tracts of
and ing over all tho
Basi based Lon, ‘good grounds, shall prove,
iver, the population conaista chiefly of| when we bave to trest the history of the
Hokcloa; but in the other seven districts | Fak-ka race, which I Going in
one of the sucoreding.
EJ. Brew,
Devortux Foseris an Cura,
I bave to thank Cantoniensis for his re
respecting the looality
fet ‘digunctus in procured, as
Also forthe information concerning « second
‘of the same genus. With
ea gen Togard to
Farrel
tit em oma Pepa
Gisiricta, But the further wo move to the| remark that I have mado enquiries teepect-
‘the lens numerous aro both Hak-kas|ing foasila both in Shanghai and Hlankow ax
(lon Tn the Kv
‘Sent, soning of fourtean Sarit,
‘an at Canton, hat
‘elerence to the a0 called ‘tones oF
et ing eta Bee eg oi ork ee
Eatmeeman cis eae mecrtere ooee
feaion of the Hak-ka,
a, while st Canton the North River was
Rrengihwe distita thor. aro siz other| morkloed an tho locality when they were
distrust gotten @ Brot
‘with « mixed
Kas, Hok-loe and Puntis,
represented there in 'vory
tion of Hake
procured.
1» Hak-kas being | the Asiatic Society a few the
onaiterabls|sinon, Sr ‘Bickmore exhibited sone foes
‘At » mooting of the N.
some fossil
‘Bumbore ‘The names of theso six districts | brachiopods from a place rear the
0. Lou
in, Takng-obing, Pwan-yu, | borders ot Hea :
Sih.ngan Hiangahan and Siting But Sa and an tie divin Govt
in to: and as this distric: would
in the other six diatricts of the Kwang-chow | agree with the general desoriptions given atNOTES anpbD
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
NOTES:—Ethnographical Sketches of the
Ginkke Chinese, €5—On tho origin of
Paper making in China, 67—Btiquette to
‘be observed by officials in mutual inter-
course aa bod and. sanctioned by’
Jmperial Authority, 68—Formosan Vo-
cabularies, 70—Notes of an Overland
Tourney from Takeo to Tamsui,in the
arly part of 1867, 71—The Flora of
Ghian,72-_Chines Dibliographial Die
tionaries, 72.
QUERIES:—Rev. W. Lobsheild on For-|
‘mosa ; Maio in Japan ; Brick Tea
Chinese Junks; Architecture in Chins
The Chinese Pantheon, 74—The term
Lasear ; A prophecy by Confucius ; The
term “ Amah"; Albinos, 75.
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