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road that leads one up the Peak, and gazed out over one of the 
great harbors of the world, filled with every type of vessel, from 
Junks and sampans to battleships, freighters and big passenger liners. 
Both the Empress of Japan end the E. of Asia were in the harbor. 
We went back to Kowloon for tea, and met Mr. Wm. Kershaw, 
whom Bill had once met in Africa. He took us back to H J^ng_ 
so that I could do a little more shopping, and for about ?5 American 
money I bought a nightie, a pair of embroidered pajamas, end a slip. 
Beautiful handwork, for so little. 
We rsmbied around town a little, visiting a bird store. Bill 
asked the price of Java finches, and the man, thinking he wantea to 
buy one, caught one out of a crowded cage, and started to put it in 
a paper bag for him. It was worth twentycents mex - about seven m 
our money. 
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easy "going, but the^ chair was rather jiggly. 
Mrs. Kershaw joined us for dinner, and afterwards we came back 
to the bort, and sat around drinking and telling Knock. Knock' stories, 
which are wing with Little Audrey stories in the East. 
February 20 - HongKong fpfw 
We were up early, ana met Mr. Herkiots, of the HongKong University 
for breakfast on board ship. Then we went over to HongKong, ana he 
took us first to a snake store, which Bill hsd wanted to see. ihere 
were wire cages out in front, filled with rat snakes> and piles of 
heavv wooden boxes in the back of the store. The proprietor opened 
one of these, which was swarming with snakes, reached in ana grabbed 
a cobra by the tail. The snake rose, and spread, ana its head was 
just on a level with the man's eye. I retreated hastily, but the 
snake made no apparent effort to bite. 
From there we wandered through Cat Street, the thieves' market 
of HongKong, where all sorts of curios are for sale. It is said one 
can pick up very good bargains here, if one knows tnem to see them. 
Then we stopped in a restaurant, not to eat, but to see the 
supply of giant salamanders on hand. In a wooden tub there were 
several live hansakis, swimming about and waiting to be eaten. 
Our morning was a short one, but filled with gasps of amazement. 
Only too soon we had to return to the Corfu, and we ssiied at noon. 
February 24 - Singapore 
We had four glorious days at sea. The last two were fairly warm, 
in fact, getting into evening clothes in our cabin, which was always 
at tropical temperature by night, was something of a struggle. We had 
pleasant parties with the Sellers, the purser, the doctor, and the 
chief engineer, who produces rabbits out of handkerchiefs and does other 
tricks of magic. 
The Corfu docked at Singapore about ten o'clock in the morning. 
