The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 11: what you’re looking at

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“THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. BOOK ‘ONE. How He'‘Fouttowep Her vo Inpta.. f es CHAPTER I. THE PILGRIMS IN BOMBAY. WITH the grim shadow of pestilence and famine stalk- ing abroad throughout the land of the rajahs, that wonder dity of India, great Bombay, possessing under ordinary: conditions almost a round million of inhabji- ants, hardly presents its usual lively appearance. True, the glowing sun as usual glints from dome and ; minaret, from mosque and temple, esplanade and can- tonment, while a breeze plays through the frondage of palm and cypress trees or snatches up the cooling drops of many fountains—crowds throng she wonderful open- air market of the Bhendy Bazar Road, where mosaic work- | ers vie with the sanner or goldsmith in tempting dis<' plays of their marvelous wares, anda thousand and one comicbooks.com