Five miles eastward from Shihtao, across the mouth of the bay, stands the South-East Promontory Lighthouse. A stiff westerly breeze takes us across in just thirty minutes. The Shihtao sampan is a commodious boat, more roomy and better built than are those of any other place on the coast. And just their boats surpass those of their neigh-hours, so the Shibtao sailors sre a finer set of men than are to be seen elsewhere on the, coast, confident, competent in all that pertains to their little craft in the heavy weather they so often experience. They had need of knowledge and daring at times to save their lives. {t sometimes happens that the fishing fest is caught at sea by a wild mid-winter storm. Happy they who discern the signs in time to make their own or an adjacent harbour. Of those who are caught by the sudden north-wester some are picked up by a passing steamer or junk, some are cast frost-bitten, half or altogeth" dead, on St a Island. The survivors n¢ to go to sea again, fingerless and toeless through exposure, and some are never heard of again, In China as in our own west country, "Men must work and women must weep; Las there's little to cara and many to ce Thougtistorms be sudden and wateradeep."
The Lighthouse tower ig of masonry cased with iron. The buildings, two fine blocks, one for the foreign, the other for native' staff, are of Ningpo stone—in these days the Shihtno quarries were unknown. The compound stands in the most. easterly point of Muyebtao an island which can be reached from the mainland on foot at low water, though the channel is never dry. The Lighthouse tower, built by Sir William Armstrong, Mitchell'& Ca. of Neweastle-on-Tyne in 1883, supports an oil light flashing every two minutes, This the first light seen on the passage north: wards alter passing Shaweishan' at the mouth of the Yangtze, It is effective, on normal nights, for sixteen miles. Close beside is the siren house with its two sirens (water butfilo, 7J-4E, isthe name given to this sound-producer by the light poetic Chinese fancy), each worked by a separate boiler and machinery, and ench capable of making itself heard eleven miles away j with many intervals of silence on the surface of the water no doubt, for science has not yet formulated the laws that con-sion of the siren-produced the Lighthouse spick ai span, donn and away from all women, There was " vacant seat at the contin's table. so he was called. She sat opposite with friends en route to old England. Their eyes met, he thought "I do not hate her;" she won-!
Mauser bullet in his spine. As he died new-looking, and always to be found by he begged the hoys to let the cards alone.; the casual visitor in such order as would do Then he prayed with his mother's picture credit to a British man-of-war. crumpled in the final spasm. There was Just outside the Lighthouse compound no more gambling until the next payday. gate, on the landward side, lies the " Titis" dered, "who is he?" within a year they married. Now, a handsome son resembles them both.
She had blood in her veins, money in her purse and a house on the hill, hated men!
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German took seven on his fork, the eyn resist. their igravesard. The Iltis, a German gunboat, i even of her crew out typhoon. Not much is known as to cumstances ofthe distaster, for none of the officers of the ship were among the saved. She loti Chefoo at daybreak, and late that night was cast on a lee shore nine miles north of the SE, Promontory Light. The Titis was weak in steaming power and proved helpless against the hurricane, which must have caught her after roi N.E. Promontory. She was cast, be apsanis and bos rock; apparently a few yards either way would hose carried "her on to the sand which stretches on either side. it was on the point amy a short distauge (o the north of this ruck that the
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