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ent to bring labor from this land of low wage than from other places, the great shipping center of Hong Kong offering particular facilities for economical and rapid transportation of these Chinese steerage passengers.
The Cantonese, as a race, are lively and sociable and of marked intelligence. As a tropical people they are not always as robust and strong in physique as their brothers of the North; but what they lack in this regard they make up in a suppleness and agility of limb that plays to advantage in any hard labor they undertake.
Kwantung, particularly in the Choy Hung section, offers a climate that favors physical development. Although Choy Hung lies in the tropics, it has an invigorating winter period, and once in a lifetime there may be frost or a little light flaking of snow. The city of Canton, forty miles from Choy Hung, is the only metropolis near the seacoast and at sea-level in the tropics where there is frost. Sun Yat Sen is one of the few leaders who were born and brought up in the tropics, and much of the vigor and strength shown by him in his long effort to overthrow the Manchus came not from the tonic of climatic influences but rather from the invigorating surroundings of his rude rural life and from the happiness of a domestic circle within whose tranquillity were built up
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