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 half E. Stopped two hours to get clear of the land.

28th, 6 A. M. — We made the Leana Island. Weather thick and hazy, and to me very cold. Quite a number of fishing junks outside fishing with their long seines, end of which are made fast to two junks, and they sail about 150 feet, dragging the seine with them. After a certain time, they come in and take the fish out of the net. About 9 o'clock passed the Ass's Ears, and came to in the harbor of Hong Kong, after a very tedious passage of 14 days.

Hong Kong is an English colony under British rule, and is a very fine city, built on the side of a hill, very high, the top of which is called Victoria Peak, which has a marine telegraph station. There are some very fine granite buildings belonging to the English and Americans and other foreign merchants, Russell & Co., Augustine Heard & Co., Oliphant & Co., Thomas Hunt & Co. It is a very