Princeton (CVA 37) - Naval Cruise Book

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INTERESTING SIDE STREETS filled with people rickshaws and Chinese curio shops wind their way up the steep slopes of the city 1 ,itll 91 4 , THE INALLA VVALLAS or water taxis provided the crew with continuous transportation to Blake's Pier on the Victoria side of the harbor.

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ENTERING THE HARBOR, 'the anchoring detail on the foc'sle scans the channel ahead for the mooring buoy. HONG KONG HONG KONG! The Pearl of the Orient, whose fog shrouded heights rise precipitously from a harbor into which come ships from all countries of the world.. .where the Orient and the Occident meet and fuse into one huge cauldron of people struggling for existence in an economy of plenty yet want...the ancient and the modern, con- trasted in the age old sampans wallowing back and forth in the water against the quay wall in the shadows of tall office buildings and department stores. . .the thousands of small shops and crowded streets and bands of pitiful little children begging, some carrying babies on their backs half as large as they. . .this is Hong Kong! ? Ni sry M9521 , CHINESE CULTURE strongly influences the architecture of the Colony, as conveyed by this pagoda. DOVVNTOVVN STREET COR- NERS in the capital city of Victoria serve as starting points for shopping and sightseeing tours.

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' E ' -E E V TIGER BALM GARDENS with its architecture, weird figures and animals is one of the major for Hong Kong sightseers. ' FOR EVEN THE SMALLEST OF COINS, Chinese divers will plunge into the harbor. BABIES and small children are one of the most familiar sights in overcrowded Hong Kong. x I i a E 5 l r r l , l Q l lr 0 3 161 I vi -r l