The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 62: what you’re looking at

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ae 56 . HE GIRL. FROM HONG-K ONG: j cheering: the, really, bold. fire laddies, who suecead: in Smothering the flames, ere, they. haye gained, control of "the building, — rT ; oe . Time, was when these same. Hindoos would have stood in apathy and let ‘the awful fire. demon demolish all. he could gather in, believing , it against fate, to fight the decrees of lah. te = . =. So, much for the propagation of Caucasian methode— “the Hindoo is Jearning to battle against chance, and place | a higher estimation, upon the. gift | of lifes 7 : Pekoe Tay cautions his master against venturing into the throng lest. his, identity be discovered by..some-reck-. less, Thug, and cord. or. krisg be. employed fo. camplate what, the fire failed to accomplish. , . hep tiaras _. The. excitement dies down by degrees, but silence fails to descend | upon the ‘Bcene, as daylight: has,: eome, heralded by the crowing of numerous cocks, the,barking of dogs, whistling of birds, and chattering of: monkeys, which latter have the freedom of the city. | ek a ete -. Under the prevailing conditions no one is spareneey to jeaving old Bombay. Though | ‘Terry, would aaturally have preferred taking. his departure by water, he i is will- ing to follow wherever Dogis leads. | tg Of course aye go by train as far aS steam wil take Are i Ya) Iti is a , journey. to. camel a sturdy man, - ‘One Terry comicbooks.com