Mr. Commissioner Bowring Hai-Nam Customs Hoi-Hon of Hoi-Hon is situated at the mouth of a river & is protected from the sea by a long narrow sand spit several miles long. No unloading operations took place in the afternoon. 24 The night was cool with a fine breeze & no mosquitoes reached us from shore. In the morning they began unloading the cargo flour, rice, pencils, liquors etc., after duffing went ashore with a customs inspector in his sail boat. I called on the commissioner of customs, Mr. Bowring who is a lepidopterist. He showed me the skin of a large stag which he said the Chinese called a mountain horse, no head or hoofs were on the skin which was a uniform dark brown. He said no tigers or leopards occur on the island. He showed me some snakes in alcohol which he was sending to Shanghai to friends. Then we went to visit a Japanese who has a shop beyond the south gate of the city. He had many snakes in formalin. Also,