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| Picture No | 10284933 |
| Date | 1866 |
| Description | The cemetery and racecourse at Hong Kong |
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A view of the Hong Kong racecourse, in very close proximity to the cemetery: 'The races took place last week in the 'Happy Valley'. Our festivities remind one of the Egyptian banquets over which a skull presided....Nearest of all are the graves of the 200 victims of last year's economical arrangements; of those slain by the pestilential miasma of the night, by the deadly vapours of the Kowloon marshes, and by the overpowering rays of a tropical sun dealing death through roofs of matting. The racing week, nevertheless went off as pleasantly as could be expected; but the fatal remembrances of last year threw a shadow over a festival presided over by such ghastly witnesses.'
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| Source | Engraving by Captain J. Colborne in The Illustrated London News, 5th May 1866 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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