Alice in Asia: The 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, Hong Kong 香港

Hong Kong 香港

September 2 – 6: Hong Kong

“We then boarded the transport for the trip to Hong Kong. Sir Mathew Nathan was the British Governor and we called on him at Government House, on top of the Peak that overlooks the city and from which one sees far across the harbor, the country beyond looking like a raised map in a geography book. We also dined there with him, going afterward to a ball at the Hong Kong Club.”

“We went to the gay little racetrack, where the riders were mounted on native ponies. Besides the regular races they had a gymkhana, egg-and-spoon races, and the like, including a riksha-race in which I took part seated in a riksha.”