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space to run.  Some of the building on the Bund are new & imposing.  There is a very fine new Granite Custom house with a large clock tower atop.  The Chinese P.O. is also a fine new granite Building & the hotels & business blocks here are 3 or 4 stories high & well built.  Some of the [[strikethrough]] onl [[/strikethrough]] old institutions such as the temple of horrors has been destroyed recently.
[[circled]] 22 [[/circled]]  At 8 A.M. I took the Stmr. Honan & departed for Hong Kong.  About the dock were row upon row of sandpans each with its family of Chinese, the husband wife & children of various ages.  These women are