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Nov. 27-

Watched young barefoot girl cleaning the house pots. There is no water of course in their squalid huts (tar papered or grass thatched roofs) - walls outside hung with rags, rusty metal [[strikethrough]] rusty[[/strikethrough]] sheets, old bits of wood, etc. She used rough grains to scrub the pots & had brought a large pan of water from a pump for common use in the [[strikethrough]] street [[/strikethrough]] corner of the street. Had a long broom to clean the dirt & muddy water into the middle of the street. No wonder T.B is prevalent.

Families grow in dark, damp, mud floored hovels. Women sit in the streets, with children strapped to their backs [[strikethrough]] eg [[/strikethrough]] repairing stockings for instance. For this activity occupying no space in the maidan or on the city pavements - they must



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have a licence.

The landscape, the patterns of the irrigated fields, the interesting mountain shapes reminiscent of the Jap. landscapes.

From Taipo, took a bus to Un-Long from where I took the bus back to Kowloon.

The peasants on the bus, spitting on the floor - dropping refuse all over, seeing the women peasants on the way, working the fields, the deft way they handle the long poles on their shoulders to which are attached huge bundles of straw, rocks - earth (when they work on construction which is going on heavily all over Kowloon & Hong Kong.

Met Hacohens & Mr. Citron at 4. Alexandra Bldg, after crossing by ferry to Hong Kong. 

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Yuen Long