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of baked pie with meat in it; beef & flour. [[circled]] 17 [[/circled]] The weather continues calm & bright at times. [[circled]] 18 [[/circled]] Four of us Americans made out an elaborate menu for our first dinner at Hong Kong in the grill room. [[circled]] 19 [[/circled]] At daylight we were in sight of land, the peaks of some of the mtns near Hong Kong. At 11 A.M. we passed the entrance marked by long ridge like island [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] having a light house situated on a bare brown rocky point. The bay or approach to Hong Kong harbor is [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] in no way tropical or charming like that of Singapore. The hills in the bay rise rather steeply but are