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with long pig- tails hanging down to the calf of the leg. 

 A strange sight in China is the European missionary, 

 who not only adopts the native costume, but also the 

 partial tonsure, and even the pig-tail, — a silken one, — 

 which enables him to travel throughout China un- 

 molested. There are a few handsome streets, a large 

 Government house, a club, etc. ; and from all appear- 

 ance the residents quite understand how to make them- 

 selves comfortable at Hong-Kong, which has been under 

 British rule since 1842. There is, however, little to 

 attract the traveller ; the only point of interest is the 

 Peak, where I spent a night at a bungalow erected by 

 the Government as a sanatorium. Here, the view at 

 sunrise was very beautiful upon the island-studded sea ; 

 and below, on the opposite side to the town, there 

 stands a castle amongst barren rocks of curious shapes, 

 which belongs to a private gentleman, who generally 

 offers the use of it to newly-married couples to spend 

 their honeymoon ; and no more suitable spot could 

 well be devised for a quiet retreat, surrounded, as it is, 

 by a sort of dreamy picturesque scenery. 



One evening I was invited to partake of a genuine 

 Chinese dinner at the famous restaurant Hang-Fa- 

 Loh-Chung, which I greatly enjoyed on account of its 

 quaintness, independent of the good company I found 

 myself in. It was a large establishment, containing a 



