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[[underline]] "vang" on the peak of a gaff would [[strikethrough]] pref [[/strikethrough]] prevent the sail from spilling its wind over the gaff. [[/underline]] Big factories - cotton mills? - and many tall smoking chimneys gave the land an unexpected [[strikethrough]] Chine [[/strikethrough]] Western Industrial appearance. This with the muddy water, cloudy skies, many steamers, [[underline]] reminds one of the approaches of Liverpool, or New Jersey. [[/underline]] Impression gains strength when nearing the multitude of substantial business buildings and smoky [[strikethrough]] sky of [[/strikethrough]] atmosphere of [[underline]] Shanghai [[/underline]] 
Current is strong and on account of its size our ship has to swing around very cautiously to its long wharf.
A [[underline]] multitude of Chinese [[/underline]] of every description waiting at the wharf. Three or four
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tall [[strikethrough]] Sikhs [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] beared Sikhs with red Turbans [[/underline]] and a stick in their hand do [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] police duty. [[/underline]] Delapidated [[underline]] Ricksaws and barefooted Chinese, some on primitive straw sandals [[/underline]] soliciting trade. [[underline]] No medical inspection; [[/underline]] very easy custom inspection by good natured young Chinaman in uniform. Then I jump in a Ricksaw, amongst a crowd of hustling, [[strikethrough]] pulling, [[/stirkethrough]] chinese, pulling or pushing carts, [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] funny wheelbarrows, with a large wheel in the center. [[underline]] Dark blue cotton [[/underline]] is predominating color. [[underline]] Better class of Chinese, have long tabbard [[/underline]] and wear a little [[underline]] hemispheric skull cap. [[/underline]] Everything looks, [[underline]] muddy, dirty and squalid [[/underline]] until after a few blocks we emerge in the "Bund" Quarter near the [[underline]] Astor Hotel [[/underline]] I had wired from Kobe to reserve rooms.