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Hongkong after breakfast
We spent the morning steaming up the long narrow harbour.
Country green with grass, no bare soil or rock showing, on some side hills I saw small trees or bushes growing
Weather very hot & humid, like [[strikethrough]]out[[/strikethrough]] our own midsummer,
Took rooms at 1P.M. at Hongkong Hotel where most of the steamer passengers stopped

Weather very oppressive  hot without any cooling breezes. Temperature however not hight 78 max. Took a trolley right past ast of city along water - front. A few bathing resorts with children bathing seen about 2 miles out. The hillsides are wild & uncultivated & grown to pine trees, small & guarded like those of Japan. In the gardens were guayavas, grapes & palms. After dinner I took