"There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she;: She breeds a breed 0' ravin' men And casts them over sea.""
Within later years somewhere east of Suez' has had an irrestible fascination for Dundee men, and while many have gone to seek fortune on the banks of the Hoogli, a large. proportion of those whose lot it was to go down to the sea in ships have found their way to China and particularly to Hongkong, the beautiful, whose '"Praya sleep under innumerable keels to-day." So writes "A.B.D." in the 'Dundee Advertiser.' Were a census of Scotsmen in Hongkong taken, it would be found that they form a considerable portion of the European population. -It used. to be said of Government House in Calcutta that it was like Keiller's marmalade, a Scotch preserve, and much the same may be said of Hongkong, for in various walks of life the resourceful enterprising Scot predominates. This is particularly true of the shipping and sea-faring section of the community, It is perhaps not generally known that the New Reclamation off which so many ships were sunk during the typhoon, was constructed under the supervision of a Dundee mani, the late Mr. James R. Mudie, who also built the Granite City Docks at Kowloon and Aberdeen (on the other side of the island), Many public offices and Government posts of great importance are filled by Scotsmen, while it is men who hail from the north of Tweed who are the heads of many of the large private business con-
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson (the Indo-China. Steam Navigation Company), who own about 70 -ships on the China coast, are a
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