Let us now land and learn something of the city and its 9 inhabitants. We stroll along Queen’s Road, the main artery of the town from west to east, with its offices and shops and its general air of prosperity. Then we turn off into a street running upwards from the harbour; it is Pottinger Street, named after 10 Sir Henry Pottinger, the trainer of the treaty of 1842. The tall houses and narrow roadway remind us that there is very little level ground in Victoria and that space is valuable. We could judge this also from the general views of the Peak which we saw as we entered. Trade needs money, and there are various banks in the city; one of the finest buildings is that of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which is well known in England and has a large branch in London. If we go into one of these banks we find that many of the clerks and cashiers are native Chinese. Here is the entrance to the Hongkong and Shanghai bank and 11 here is the back of the great block of fine buildings. The statue in the corner is that of the late Queen Victoria, and the 12 figures in the foreground are Chinese women carrying pigs in baskets. The whole of this area, with its open spaces, including a cricket ground, and the mass of buildings which we saw from the harbour, has been reclaimed from the sea. In one of the narrow streets we may see something of native customs. It is New 13 Year’s Day, a great festival among the Chinese; all over the ground there is a litter of crackers, and we may perhaps see them solemnly firing a huge cracker in front of some important house as a kind of New Year’s greeting. At a corner we come on a scene which reminds us of London: the road is up and labourers are 14 at work, but here they are Chinese. Down on the water front is another aspect of native life. Here we have a large population 15 living always in covered boats; there are millions of Chinese living in this fashion on the rivers and waterways of the mainland. To see how the Europeans live we must leave the busier part of the town and climb up the hill. Down below, in the native quarter, the houses are crowded together and the air is close. Higher up are trees and gardens and open spaces. Here is a 16 view from Battery Path, on our way up. We end our walk at 17 Government House, where we see the inevitable Chinese gardener at work.