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PROGRAMME No. 1.
An afternoon's walk. Proceed by launch or boat to the landing place just beyond the Cosmopolitan Docks for Cheung Sha Wai, where you will find a good path leading up over the hill to a not very high gap, on passing through which, keep to the right, as the road winds round the back of the range of high hills which on their southern front face Hongkong Harbour. After about two hours, having kept to the right all the way with a full view of Mirs Bay in the distance, you will suddenly come upon a good road leading up from the valley below. This is the main road over the range to Kowloon City; follow it and in less than two hours you should arrive at the ferry for Hongkong unless you are very tired when the launch can be taken from Kowloon City.
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PROGRAMME No. 2.
NOTE. When the passage of the Cap-Siu-Moon pass is contemplated it would be as well to consult the tide table; as, to attempt such passage in a Hakka boat on an ebb tide without the aid of a steam-launch would prove a very patience trying job.
Proceed to Castle Peak and on leaving the boat, give instructions as to her destination. If very early in the season land on the right hand side of the bay, (if later, say October, the left hand side might be used
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as there are generally quail to be got within a few yards of the shore) taking the route as starred in the map, passing the village of Sau Ka Wai, immediately after which, snipe will be found in the paddy fields and on the marshes. The bed of a stream here sometimes proves useful for waterfowl and a little further on a small lagoon has been known to yield well, even to the blue heron. If the weather is not too hot and a full day is decided upon, we must proceed rapidly taking just the cream of the sport until the market village of Peang Shan is reached, thence across a low sort of pass where the range of hills on our right has all but fallen away. This brings us into the Shap-pat-Heung valley where we turn to the right and follow the red starred route, shooting at leisure, to the foot of the hills, taking a neat little pass which, as we approach, will be plainly visible. This pass lands us at the village of Un-tan where, according to the instructions given to the Hakka boat, we can proceed to Tai-Lam-Chung, or by the much shorter route to the village at the back of Ma-wan, thence to Hongkong in a couple of hours, according to tide.
PROGRAMME No. 3.
This is, properly speaking, a picnic trip, and perhaps the most interesting out of Hongkong. Have an early breakfast and leave by steam-launch for Tsin Wan, about one hour's steaming—land by native boat in the bay and proceed through the village or on the embankment. It is a good plan to hire a village lad as a guide, who will also assist in carrying the tiffin basket, always keeping him on ahead. The walk is a pretty one for some distance until the ascent begins, which at first is somewhat abrupt, but afterwards for several