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after dark so we could not leave until next morning at daylight.  After getting outside we struck a strong North-east monsoon which made a heavy chop sea & made the boat pitch.  The sky was partly overcast.
[[circled]] 26 [[/circled]]  The monsoon continued strong.  At noon we were off Fuchow & then the Formosa Straights.  Our course lay close inshore near [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] behind some large bare islands on which a few fishing villages & Chinese junks could be seen. [[strikethrough]] Since [[/strikethrough]] At present the Hong Kong dollar is worth 78¢ gold a rise of 28 cents since last year.  Shanghai [[strikethrough]] money [[/strikethrough]] silver dollar is