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p. BOXER BLUEJACKETS ON PARADE IN TOKYO, JAPAN Ui 111 ■I jji I EM CLUB, YOKOSU I
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HOMG KONG HONG KONG ' S crowded streets and shops will live long in the memories of the crew of the BOXER. It was here that many of the crew first saw the Sam-Pans, the float- ing homes for a large percent of the Chinese population who derive their living from fishing, working around the docks, and the coins sailors throw to the hundreds of chil- dren who dive to great depths after a mere nickel. It is rare to see a diver come up empty-handed. Rickshaws alongside the English Trams and automobiles are another strange sight. Hong Kong is a city that has a natural wall of high, barren hills around It. These hills are used to gage a person ' s importance. The higher you live on the hill the more im- portant you are. The hills are quite picturesque in the early morning and afternoons, with a heavy fog covering the caps. The narrow winding streets, which are filled with more pedestrians than vehicles are lined with many modern buildings. The many shops here are predominantly Chinese, which makes bartering very much in effect. The shops are well filled with lacquer, silk, silver, ivory, jade, cloth from Eng- land and many other Items which attract the tourist. To buy a piece of merchandise you bargain ' till you think you have brought the price down to the very bottom and shown another shopkeeper that you can ' t be cheated out of a penny — as you walk triumphantly away, that little chisler is smiling to himself victoriously as he rings up another sale to an American Sucker. If you had been Chinese you could have bought the Item for half what you paid for It. Here, as at all the other ports we visited, the merchants knew the exact time the first liberty launch would reach the dock with the rich Americans. The reason so many looked heavy-eyed on our arrival was due to their working day and night changing the price tags to a velly special pllce for us; yes, four to five times higher. We said farewell reluctantly to H ' Kong, a city of many good liberties.
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