The officer had now worked him-unknown through the Heungshan hills, beautiful as they are. Below the white deck were racks of rifles and cutlasses, with a few revolvers. Pirates and bandits faded out of the picture, as they inevitably must wherever this particular launch goes. I shall not tell where I got it or whose it was. Suffice. it to say that I probably should not have had it at all anywhere but in Macao, where kindness,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.