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10, Wyndham Street.
Opposite "China Mail." P. O. Box 620.
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37, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
A few doors from the Queen's Theatre,
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SHANGHAI
MANILA,
DRAGON'S POOL
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 bo no mistake. The Sterling Inlet 'on one side and low now on can lying marahy scrub land on the other going la good until we enter the hill until it reaches the end of the glade of Ching Mi (named in hon-
HE Pools are easily the most, but it is a little arduous-Indeed, present buses but one could sit on Inlet. Here is an interesting vil-our of Sir Cecil Clementi). Here and lage Nam Ching, which subslets the road parts and continues on or the little platforms outside 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
through tracting lime from a species of to the right takes one few people know where they are and est method of attack is from the the ground."
police station Just beyond Wa Hung Buses now serve the purpose very coral in crade little home made Ching Mi village and so to the top fewer still have visited them.
pool (erroneously called by some the Dragon's Puol). They lie tucked away behind the and not very far short of Sha-tau- well. They meet each train and the kilns.
The road now turns inland. It là Patain Range that jagged light kok. We return to our train (if we fare is only 10 or 12 cants.
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 struck out through the outskirts of a village wooded on one side while on the one, stands outside Taipo Marke to and looks along the causeway. days the light railway made a ples- across paddy fields and streams to it is momentarily lost it can always other stands a solitary line of eu It is possible 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 down ing off place-not that it was any just short of the aforementioned idea 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 Hen
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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 got under ita 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 little bluff the well defined cutting,
land auddenly falla 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 Anest sights in the rather unexpectedly awings off for Colony. A magnificent fall of water a moment sharp left 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 avoid 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! Twenty yards or no further followed up to the point but it con- OR ↑ rocky path takes one tinues fair and one cannot really down to the lower pool miss it if one's senses are on the deep in whose dentha slumbers
QUEINS
the dragon who makes periodic mids on the crops in the district and to whom votive offerings are still made at the little shrine at tha entrance to the glade. Ascending to the main path above and continuing one comes to a bridge spanning s tributary just as it enters the main stream flowing away from the Dragon's Pool.
Bir Cecil Clementi was responsi ble for this bridge being built many years ago.",
Before crossing the bridge wê turn left up a shady overgrown path that follows the tributaries track.
Suddenly we are brought in fall 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
or
The return journey presenta some difficulty. Ideal for thenon. atrenuous-walkers is to have a launch waiting at Wang Chong only half A
mile less 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 or 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 in reached and continues on to Tai Po Market Unfortunately this makes rather a long dull and distinctly weary return.
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