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Hub of the Orient . . . Hong Kong: what a town! We hauled into the harbor and dropped . anchor. V Mary Soo, 66Garbage Mary V was there with her girls before the anchor chain had time to get well-soaked. So were the sampans and bumboats. And the water-taxis. Maybe the taxis were lop-sidedand could- n't do more than 1 knot, but they 'got' us ashore. And they got us back aboard: loaded like barges' with . Real 'No- Squeak' Young boots, Taj Mahal suits and trousers, bam- boo furniture, carved chests and . . . Anyway, Hong Kong was a crazy town. Ashore we jostled along through crowds of Chi- nese, Indians, British troops, American tourists, beleagured and badgered by rickshaw boys and sidewalk vendors, awed by women in the Slinky slit skirts which have been the fashion thereabouts for mil- leniums, I guess. - t Hong Kong: King Kong of the Chinese coast. But it loomed even larger in our eyes for a simple reason: it was nearly the last stop. ,
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