the west entrance. The old Chinese town with its great wall encircling it occupies the bend of the bay where the land is low + level. The beach line looked beautifully sandy + fine for bathing. A large garrison of native troops under British Officers were stationed in barracks near the west entrance. Graths + Sampans with crews of fishermen were scattered about over the bay + the sea beyond. The hills were bare yellow granite or gneiss with a few scrubby green bushes sturdy scattered about. A few large white gulls were riding on the surface of the bay. And further off black cormorants sat in rows on exposed rocks; The summer cottages & school house [illegible] very comfortably for Europeans.