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and pines. One may go on foot from one end of Hong Kong to the other, and yet always be 

 in the shade. No one dreams of walking. Nothing is to be seen but chairs or palanquins. 

 The coolies, their heads sheltered by enormous straw hats, carry you at a rattling pace. 

 Nothing can be more delicious than a night promenade in an open sedan-chair. In the lower 

 part of the town the scene is most animated and busy; officers and soldiers in red uniforms 

 and with swarthy complexions (Sepoys), Parsees, Hindoos, Chinese, Malays, European ladies 



THE CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI. 



in elegant toilets, and men and women with yellowish skins, dressed like Europeans (half- 

 caste Portuguese). The higher you climb the quieter you find it. Insensibly the town 

 turns into country. Scramble up still a little higher, and you are in the middle of rocks, bare 

 of trees, but covered with odoriferous shrubs, and traversed by a fine macadamised road, with 

 glimpses of views here and there of marvellous beauty." * 



Shanghai, as another leading port, would naturally be visited by the tourist of leisure, 

 and it affords a wonderful example of English enterprise. It is by nature the port of Suchow, 

 ninety miles up the great Yang-tse-Kiang river. Near the city its flat, green, cultivated 



* lliibner. 



