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104 armed crew, [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] ^[[on]] [[underline]] account of Pirates of Pearl River. [[/underline]] Great sight of [[underline]] Hong Kong [[/underline]] at night and the twinkling lights on the hills. Had some excellent Australian Port Wine called Penfold. [[underline]] March 8. [[/underline]] (Sunday) Arrive early (about [[underline]] 6.A.M at Canton [[/underline]] A river about 1/2 mile wide with endless traffic of [[underline]] every kind of Chinese craft, [[/underline]] big and small also steamers. Flat shores and 2 cheerless rows of houses on both shores. [[strikethrough]] Some of [[/strikethrough]] Houses are brick, some 3 and 4 stores. Look gray and have tiled roofs similar to Spanish or European roof tiles. Around our wharf are [[underline]] clustered endless sampan houseboats. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] and then [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Family life on them is easily observable from [[/underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 105 [[underline]] our deck. [[/underline]] Same hard working women, rowing or sculling or poling, with a [[underline]] diminutive chink baby, asleep in a little bag on her shoulders, [[/underline]] its head and arms and legs hanging and swinging limply. At other boats [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the]] youngsters are [[underline]] hunting for lice in the hair [[/underline]] of their younger or elder brothers [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] or sisters. This is [[underline]] part of their daily occupations; [[/underline]] reminds of the apes in the Zoo. Others are cleaning their teeth with soft chinese tooth brushes and [[underline]] dip them in the dirty muddy water of the stream! [[/underline]] On other boats, [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] children [[strikethrough]] are either [[/strikethrough]] barely old enough to walk set off [[underline]] firecrackers [[/underline]] on the bow of the boat, or over planting in a hole on deck [[underline]] some smoking Joss sticks. [[/underline]] all this [[underline]] "for good luck or for driving off bad spirits. Fire cracker makers, [[/underline]] and Joss stick makers are an [[underline]] important [[/underline]]