The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE GIRL FROM HONG-KON@. 15 where the temple of Vishnu appears—there is a beautiful palkee gharry—two persons sit in black box on wheels— now mandarin, in one half-minute I could take you to her.”’ Terry Donahue does not make reply, for his eyes are glued upon the occupants of the Bombay shigram, drawn by a single steed, with the driver walking or run- ning like a stag alongside—his breath comes slower, and for the moment-he appears as though under a spell. The girl from Hong-Kong is a royal beauty, and when Terry’s exceeding homeliness of figure and feature aro taken into consideration the audazity of the London exile in aspiring to win her becomes simply amazing. comicbooks.com