Hongkong, 16th September.
Sport begins now, cricket, football, yachting, and so forth: those who have been complaining of the warmth and yearning for the cool, are heating. themselves with violent exercise to show how pleased they are the heat has passed. Talking of sport and exercise, s most foolhardy foot has just been accomplished by a young man here. It arose, as such things-usually do, from a brag and a bet. He undertook to walk up the Peak. When it was: soon that ho was in earnest, and not to be dissuaded, the young man's friends made all arrangements that were possible, to minimise the risks. Pacemakers, with double relays of chair coolies,.. were assigned to the different stages,. each detachment. having.a...modical; man with it. The start was made at 10 a.m,
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