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We took the 9AM ferry across the bay + he met us at Kowloon where we took the Canton RR. to Fan Ling station. The road skirted [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] the bay + ran thru several small tunnels. Rice fields + hills bordered the track. Day rainy but it cleared at noon for a short time. At Fan Ling were many groves of lichi trees but no fruit was produced this year owing to a beetle plague. Camphor trees + mangoes were also seen.
Flowers were abundant on the place, colias, balsams, belchis, etc. The Chinese border was only a few miles beyond this place. The hills were high + without forests but green + in places shrub covered. Only one tiger has been heard of here by Goldring, one killed a ew [[strikethrough]]years [[/strikethrough]] ^[[months]] ago + now mounted in the museum at HongKong. [[Muntjac?]][[seen?]] in the hills but no pheasants. Took tiffin at his house at Kowloon where he has a good library. I was.