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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