The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 59: what you’re looking at

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if F ev foo43 eld GIRE FROM HONG-KONG, 58 - They a are rovsirestiy3 in the ontshists of the city. 4 Houses abound, but as the hour is fast verging on toward that witching time “hen graveyards yawn and. graves yield up their dead,” few lights are to be seen, and by good luck no one has been about at the time they left their vehicle so unceremoniously. by | Footpads are to be met with in Bombay. the s same as in all large cities. 9 Strict municipal — he regulations laid down. 1 in the Koran, and all other means that may be employed to diminish such lawless capers to the contrary, the streets of Bombay are never safe after dark. , When two walk out, the chances of their being assailed diminish, and although our friends several times discern skulking figures near by, that promise a possibility of trouble, they reach the hotel without being compelled to stand and deliver to native road-agents. Even in this haven of refuge Pekoe Tay digas. not slacken his caution, and when Terry has ‘retired the faithful gervitor crawls to his door, enters, and. sleeps. there like a watch-dog—who passes in must first of all deal with him. | About two- hours before the coming of dawn a tromen- dous racket arises, that sends a thrill of terror into many a heart. a A fire in Bombay often proves a serious: affair indeed...