To the average marooned tripper, the trouble about Pootoo is that vegetarian diet is imposed upon one. Neither flesh nor fowl, to say no: thing of herring, red or otherwise, is consumed there, and food con: sists of rice and cunningly disguised vegetables. On such the marooned] trippers subsisted, The priests, however, were a, wonderful asset. Seeing various bedraggled men and women in little more than bathing costumes, they. produced clothing and it was extremely welcome, even although the Chief Abbot's spare pair of trousers gave the usually trim figure. of J.C. Burgess the appearance balloon in course of inflation, The chief danger was that there was a following sea, caused by the tide, and with the stern weighed down by the number of passengers, she began to ship water. In the circumstances the only thing to do was to turn her bow to the waves and try to back her down to the chip, but for a full 10 minutes the At the Southern Monastery a certain portion of the night was whiled away by a very successful poker party, and these were the happiest hours. When it came to sleeping, there was no taming of the mosquitoes, and people got up and talked to one another, falling off into fitful sleeps in the middle of unimportant arguments. had escaped the scavengers by set~ tling on the sides of houses passed fon and were seen mo more, The Chinese were greatly perturbed about it,—declared that it meant "large rain come" in which they hit the balls eye.
The Hongkong cricket team came up to play a match about September 26, but no play was possible. The team consisted of seven officers and three civilians. The officers were on a vacation and stayed on. The civilians returned ta Hongvorig. However, when the weather showed signs of breaking in October, they] came up again and the match was Played at the end of October.
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