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WANG HING

JEWELLER

GOLD & SILVER WARE MANUFACTURER

and

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10, Queen's Road Central

2 Minutes from the Hong Kong Hotel and at

2, SAI HING STREET, CANTON.

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THE DRAGON'S POOL

It is possible

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and so a start can now be made, alert, as the cutting for which we from there; actually the good road are making is very clearly seen on is the usual stony path. It skirts the skyline a little to the left. From Sterling Inlet on one side and low now on can be no mistake. The lying marshy scrub land on the other going is good untiì. we enter the hill until it reaches the end of the glade of Ching M (named in hon- Here is an interesting vil-our of Sir Cecil Clementi). Here THE Pools are easily the most, but it is a little arduare--Indeed, present buses but one could alt on inlet.

Ching, which subsists the road parts and continues on or the little platforms outside and lage Nam spectacular sight in Hong Kong more than a little.

near partly on fishing and partly by ex-bending slightly right. The road or the New Territories yet very The best, certainly the pleasant-dangle one's legs perilously

a species of to tracting me from

the right takea

through few people know where they are andfest method of attack is from the the ground.

in crude little home made Ching Mi village and so to the top Buses now serve the purpose very coral fewer still have visited them. police station just beyond Wa Hung!

pool (erroneously called by some They lie tucked away behind the and not very far short of Sha-tau- well. They meet each train and the kilns.

the Dragon's Pool). The road now turns inland. It is Patain Runge that jagged light kok. We return to our train (if we fare is only 10 or 12 cenia.

At the time climbers alighted at clearly defined and if in passing This pool is deep and quiet, well peaked range of hills facing one as have not missed it) and continue on

Fanling Station. In the old Wa Hang village and one stands outside Talpo Market to

struck out through the outskirts of a village wooded on one side while on the and looks along the causeway. days the light railway made a plea-across paddy fields and streams to it is momentarily lost it can always other stands a solitary line of eu to rush them by sant means of reaching the break- a good road but now that road starts be regained if one has even a rough calyptus trees, planted many years boldly scaling and dropping downing off place-not that it was any just short of the aforementioned iden of where one is with regard to ago by our late Governor Sir Cecil the far side of the Patain Range cleaner or less fly haunted, than the police station, well beyond Wa Hang the Patain range and realise that Clementi when on his first period of

one is now striking down almost service in the Colony. S.W. to get under its Northern

The road straight on gives no Slope. The path swings off and up. indication of a fall or break in the slightly left, after a time through a land until rounding a lttle bluff the land suddenly falls sharply away to It turns and turns up a long the right. Turning half round one sheltered valley and then again sees one of the finest sights in the rather unexpectedly awings off for Colony. A magnificent fall of water a moment sharp loft to a higher and from the top pool, full of reflected even more marked cutting. This is light and the music of nature, drops an important point as great care sheer to the lower or Dragon Pool must be exercised if one is to avold a good 150 ft. below. Sheer be- taking the wrong path. The road, cause it has worn a huge well de- that continues on seems the better fined hole in an outcrop of hard rock one but after half a mile or so it that at one time broke the fall about dwindles to nothing. The real path half way down. does not look so good as the one

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well defined cutting.

tinues fair and one cannot really mies it if one's senses are on, the

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Twenty yards от 30 further

followed up to the point but it con-i on A rocky path takes one down to the lower pool deep in whose depths slumbers the dragon who makes periodic raids on the crops in the district and bo whom votive offerings are still made at the little shrine at the entrance to the glade. Ascending to the main path above and continuing one comes to a bridge spanning a tributary just as it enters the main stream flowing away from the Dragon's Pool.

COLLECE

HAMBOUR

OFFICE

TRAMES

WHARK

Sir Cecil Clementi was responsi ble for this bridge being built many years ago.

Before crossing the bridge we turn left up a shady overgrown path that follows the tributaries track.

Suddenly we are brought in full view of the falls into the bride's Pool

Not so high and impressive as the others but much prettier. A much broader sweep of a fall and In strong sunshine the falling waters make a brilliant tracery, against the darker rocks.

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The return journey presents some difficulty. Ideal for the non- strenuous walkers is to have a launch waiting at Wang half Chong only

4 mile of below the falls, The launch effects the journey to Tai Po in a very short time. For the very energetic it is possible to climb over the back of the Patain but this is liable to be too strenuous. The real alternatives are to retrace one's steps, than which nothing is more. hateful or the skirt round the end of the Patain Range along the sand when one strikes a path of series of paths which keep along. between, the foot of the range and Plover cove. The path coalesce into a perfectly good road when Tolo Harbour is reached and continues on to Tai Po Market. Unfortunately the makes rather a long dull and distinctly weary return.

The pools are undoubtedly one of the finest alghts in the Colony- Wesleyan Methodist Church Quar terly.

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