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and

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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

Tpectacular sight in Hong Kong ure than a little.

THE

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 until we enter the hill until it reaches the end of the glade of Ching Mi (named in hon-

THE 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. the little platforms outside and lage Nam Ching, which subsists the road parts and continues on or or the New Territories yet very{ The best, certainly the pleasant dangle one's legs perilously near¡ partly on fishing and partly by ex-bending slightly right. The road tracting lime from a species of to the right takes - one through few people know where they are and ces method of attack is from the the ground. fewer still have visited them. police station just beyond Wa Hung Buses now serve the purpose very coral in crude little home made Ching Mi village and so to the top 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 kilne.

the Dragon's Pool). Patain Range that jagged light kok. We return to our train (if we fare is only 10 or 12 cents.

The road now turns inland. It is At the time climbers alighted at clearly defined and if in passing

This pool is deep and gelet, well peaked range of hilla facing one as have not missed it) and continue on one stands outalda Talpo Market to Fanling Station. In the old Wa Hang village and 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 la 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 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 awings 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 suddenly falls sharply away to It turns and turns up a long the right. Turning half round one sheltered valley and then again sces one of the finest zighia in the rather unexpectedly swings 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, drope an important point as great care shoor 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 scema the better fined hole in an outcrop of hard rock one but after half a mile or so is 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 followed up to the point" but it con- оп tinues fair and one cannot really miss it if one's senses are on the

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Twenty yards or Bo further takoa опе a rocky path down to the lower deep in whose depths slumbers pool

the dragon who makes periodic raids on the crops in the district and to 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.

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 prettler. A much broader sweep of a fall and in strong sunshine the falling waters make a brilliant tracery against the darker rocks, a

The return journey presents some dificulty. Ideal for the non- strenuous walkers is to have a-launch waiting at Weng

Chong only half

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Jess below 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 £y 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 striken a path or series of paths which keep along between the foot of the range and Plover cova. The path coalesce into a perfectly good road when Tolo Harbour is reached and continues on to Tai Po Market. Unfortunately this makes rather a long dull and distinctly. weary return.

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