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Space to room, some of
the buildings on the Bund
are new & improving.
There is a very fine new
Granite Customs house
with large clock tower atop. The Chinese P.O.
is also a fine new granite
Building & the hotel &
Business blocks here are
3 or 4 stories high &
well built. Some of the
old institutions such as
the temple of honors has been
destroyed recently.
22 At 8 am. took the
steam, Honan & departed
for Hong Kong. About the
clock were now 7 for our
Band pass each with its
family of Chinese, the husband
wife & children of various
ages. These women are