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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