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no doubt. Black pigs + [[parah?]] dogs were everywhere on the streets. The dogs are said to be without owners + live about the city anywhere. I saw a few of the men in swimming in the harbour but this is a recent art & few of them are able to swim alltho they live on the rivers in junks.
The women never come near the water to bath. The men + boys go half clothed but the women + girls never do being more careful in this regard than the Japanese. A tiger was recently killed on the European island which it swam one morning from Amoy Island. It was herd calling + later chased into a narrow-streets between two houses & shot from a [[strikethrough]] top[[/strikethrough]]house top by the chief of police. One was recently shot on Hongkong island also which it reached by swimming,