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The summers are usually hot, and the town un- 
healthy; still manifold precautions and sanitary 
measures have done much of late to diminish the 
amount of sickness. As it is, however, great numbers 
are invalided home from the vessels employed on 
this station, while others find rest in six feet of earth 
in the Happy Talley, where a Protestant cemetery is 
situated. 
Warehouses and stores, for supplying every 
requisite and luxury of life, are numerous. The 
houses of business along the Queen s Road would 
do credit to many an European town, and the 
naval yard is complete with every requirement 
for refitting vessels employed on this part of the 
station. 
On reaching the shore, a walk through the Chinese 
quarter is most interesting. The houses and shops 
are most curiously constructed, and just as strangely 
fitted up ; not one, however small or poor, but has its 
domestic altar, its Joss, and other quaint and curious 
arrangements known only to these peculiarly strange 
people. Look where we will, there are evidences of the 
untiring industry and enterprise of these surprising 
sons of Shem. Up every alley, and in every street, 
we see crowds of little yellow faces, and stumble 
against the brokers or merchants hurrying on to 
their business, clad in the universal blue jean jumper 
and trousers, cotton socks, and shoes of worked silk, 
with thick wood soles ; some with, and others without 
