By 1846 they had opened the Hong Kong Club as a punkah-cooled refuge from local reality, and the development of residences on the Peak allowed them to extend segregation to the .
Over his head waved a punkah, drawn by a white-clad woman disciple.
From the punkah-hung summer bungalows of Darjeeling to the marble "cottages" of 19th century Newport (where a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once a .