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KALA-HAI. 
of felspar and transparent quartz, and are peaceful 
enough to batlie in, but on the weather side the 
surf thunders against the rough barnacle -clad 
boulders, and the war of flint, and water is in- 
cessant. 
Above fifty miles west of the point of Shan-tung 
Ave observed a narrow harbour, formed by a deep 
bight of the coast, and which ends in a creek 
running over a plain, half grassy and half sandy. 
This Avas Kala-hai, but it is not marked in the 
charts. At the entrance Ave found a’ fishing party 
very busy curing cod and skate, soles and sharks. 
Their boats Avere hauled up in the sand and their 
nets spread out to dry, Avhile all hands under a 
shed, half buried in heaps of fish, were cleaning 
and salting Avdth true Chinese industry. 
As AA^c folloAved the course of the creek, Ave found 
the view bounded seaward by desolate, undulating 
sand-hills, and landAA^ard by green, pleasant slopes 
and Aullages buried in trees. On the sward, be- 
tween the salt-Avater lagoon and the sand-hills, 
herds of neat little oxen Avere grazing placidly. 
