3-085-607 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chinese Question: views of Victoria, the capital of Hong-Kong, 1898. 'The Port and Bay, viewed from Victoria Peak. The + in the picture indicates the Kowloon or Kaulun peninsula, in the Chinese province of Kwangtung, which includes the town of the same name ceded to Great Britain in January 1861. British Kowloon includes a sanatorium for troops and a number of villa residences, besides three docks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.