It, seems to, be. the usual thing for the wind to drop for an hour or {Wo about, dawn, getting up again with the sun for a. steady Sfow which does not last ong, ant from seven till the. middle of the morning there ig little wind expected, hat Thursday morning we got the wind to take us to within a Mile or two of the northern end of Yangmatao, the long island. strip that runs from southwest to, northeast from a point some eighteen nailes from Chefoo. We rowed for about an hour and. reached a. small island off the north end of Yang. macao, called Lien Shih or White Kock." According to the chart there a bench mark cut on a large Doulder here, but our search for it proved vain and we had to content ourselves with the curious. geological formations and the numbers! Of birds, mainly cormorants and martins, which we disturbed by our Tanding, 'After a short bathe we were just in time fo take advantage of good northerly breeze which, sprang, up at ten o'clock and by which we made good, progress till dusk, healing for Finger Point or Eddy land. By nightfall we were a few miles' from this objective and eight or ten from our destination; just ever, the hills the lowed brightly "with the glare rok the Tights of the warships and we could ce. occasional ares. or. reworks thrown "up from them, We even talked of arriving by about ight, but with the fall of dark s the Wwind failed too, and litle Progress "could be. made "withens tue to the oars.
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