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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1938.
TAIMOSHAN HIKER SEESTA SOMETHING MOVING" AND ISSUES TIGER WARNING
an with its 3,130 feet, Taip
the New Territories, second
did, one has to pass the <fest, the path: zuuning
cite climb for Hong Kong about ty yards below the rocks.
It can be reached either from village of Tsm Wan, on the Peak Road or from Tai Po Railway Station via Lead along the long ridge which can be sex from the Hong Kong side on days
When I was about a hundred yards from the rocks Fsaw "something large" the with a hervy: body, moving downwards. Castle
issued another #yoo-hoo" but receiv- ed no reply. The Alpine code in lar cases would have made a necessary, the more as [views about the weather in this [liar hour would have been more a conventional introduction to a versation
From Tsum Wan over the sum down to Tai Po Market Station, a good walker 5 hours. A party in good trainings would probably nee from eight to nine hours.
A few weeks ago, a report was culated to the effect that a tiger ha been sighted on the Taipo Road, on Sunday week, as there were no ther reports about the tiger, I thou a trip could be chanced
six of us in all four ladies, and young man in addition to mys
slight mist nade it impos cear colours, s
yell and again had
hind the rocks.
ther ply from be- nce, made me In
uspicious. Could it be the tiger Brianitar cases-g of my home ex- erience would be rather puzzled. In our text books about tours in the Alps, jar in the Baedekers, he reference is limade as to how one Sehaves when one meets tigers. They write a lot about the dangers of avalanches, how to walk en glaciers and so forth, but how about encounters with wild animals?
10
None of us had a gun but the young trace of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's friends,
I looked around but could see man had long legs and could have done Jeeves or Wooster. the running for the wh the tiger decide
In order took along blade about. tified its pré needed it for tough brown" bone of the
Nothing happer |ed Taipo Market:
train leaving there
crowd. hati
Le side,
To them, my case would have offer- fed much food for thought, and they
certainly have found a way out.
In their absence, I had to do my own jus-woostering
that I First ideas run at the maxma and the rpm. the legs can develop. Reply the back-from the brain chamber a Ja Jeeves- Yes, sir, but don't you know that run- ning away round at about noon might reach-be considered an invitation to Inach? catch the Don't forget that you probably have
to deal with a tiger.
seen
Only a really devoted hiker will sp further, I put the legs into motion ani As the brain refused to. fiction preciate that I look hands was myre followed the trail as if I had cent lengthy stay in Shangilai of six
nothing. years as upon a servitude of so many years in gaol and that Hong Kong in knife with the lengthy blade from the Pure instinct transferred the kitchen comparison is a paradise, far too, little pocket at the back to the inside poe- known in Shanghai
As my early transfer back to Shang hai is again imminent. I felt anxions to have one more look at Taimosdan ang yesterday, as none of the people of my acquaintance were suficiently energe tic to come along, I decided on a solo.
ket of my jacket, while the fingers of one hand held a fam grip on the han die, the other being in possession of walking-säck
Within a few seconds, I reached the point where the path was only about thirty yards from the now Ominous (rock-garden.
The train unloaded me at Taipo For some reason which I cannot ex- Market station at 9.25. The weather plain, I stopped and sent out a last [looked more than dull; mist right down warning in the form of a loud "hallo,” in the valley leading to Lead Mine (in the direction of the rocks. This call Pass, and a thick fog, but no drizzle was certainly not meant as a provo- at the time.
Ication Again there was no reply.
I proceeded further, the eyes of
I reached the Pass and turned to the course switched upon the rocks, right up the hill in order to gain the safely passed the gap. I reached the long west-east ridge on a level of first peak, touched the pole, and then about 2,000 to 2,500 feet, behind Tai-behind the peak, on the downward moshan The trail if it has been done grade, despite the fatigue and the rest once on a clear day, is so simple that I really deserved on the summit, I it can easily be followed even in a fox found myself almost running down the When I was about the middle of the hill. I stopped only when I saw Cas- ridge the fog became so thick that the Peak Road far down the valley. I despite the fact that the hour was could not get down quickly enough. noon, it grew suddenly so dark that I Although these lines are written in felt something extraordinary most a hiking spirit, and some feelings have happen.
(been influenced by woosterise Heavy thunder followed accompanhighly recommend that these matters every word I have written is true, and lied by a downpour reminiscent of a be investigated
typhoon day, but there was no: light- ming. I tried to seek shelter behind amassed the ominous zone, more show
In view of the fact that after I bad rock but within a few minutes a merens swept over the summit, it might ciless rain soaked every square inch of be diffent to find clear footprints. my clothing.
They might possibly be found more or
This went on for about twenty min less intact under the rocks where the utes when the rain stopped, and, as if "something" may have sought shelter a stage curtain had been raised, I saw for left other traces, but needless to the fog had gone and my friend Tai-say, these investigations should have a moshan in all its majesty...
better backing than a kitchen knife.
"My home country is in the Euro- For fellow. hikers it would be wise pean Alps, and I could not help send- to wait for the "all clear” signal be- ing in the direct of the summit, a fore attempting new climbs of Taimo- formidable - Alme "uyoo-hoo," which, i shan or a hike in that region.
I had had to translate its meaning. at that moment, I would have said that it meant "greetings and health to yee, old boy Tammy ka
The marvellous scenery had simply overwhelmed my heart. I had about another hour's walk before me to the summit
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