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Shipping Steamers,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY FEBRUARY 29

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.

Luxury-Speed-Punctuality,

The only Line that Maintains a Regular Schedule Service of under Eleven Days across the Pacific is the "Empress Lina" Saving 5 to to Days Ocean Travel.

11 Day YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER. 18 Days HONGKONG TO VANCOUVER:

PROPOSED SAilings,"

(Subject to Alteration). R.M.S,

Tone

LEAVE HONGKONG

ARRIVE VANCOUVER "EMPRESS OF CHINA"......5,000...... THURSDAY, Mar, tith... Mar. 30th "LENNOX"*...

3,700......WEDNESDAY, Mar. 25th April aged "EMPRESS OF INDIA...,000... THURSDAY, April 9th..........................April 27th *MONTEAGLE" ....................................6, 103......WEDNESDAY, April 220d ......... May 16th "EMPRESS OF JAPAN......6,000......THURSDAY, May 7th... MBY 25th "GLENFARG" 3.700.............. WEDNESDAY, May 20th June 18th

5.5. "LENNOX" and " GLENFARG" are Freighters only and do not carry Passengers.

EMPRESS steamships depart from Hongkong at 4 PM 8.5. "MONTEAGLE,"

"LENNOX" and "GLENFARG" at 12 Noon.

THE

"HE Quickest route to CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE, calling at SHANG- HAI, NAGASAKI, (through the INLAND SEA OF JAPAN), KOBB, YOKOHAMA, and VICTORIA, B.O., and at QUEBEC, with the Company's New Palatial" EMPRESS Steamships, 14,500 tons register. The through transit to LIVERPOOL being 23 days, from YOKOHAMA, and 291 days from HONGKONG..

Hongkong to London, 1st Class .........dia St. Lawrence River Lines or New York £71.10. Hongkong to London, Intermediate on

Steamors, and tst Class on Railways...vid St. Lawrence £40. Via New York £43. First-class rates include cost of Meals and Berth in Steeping Car while crossing the R.M.S. "MONTEAGLE carries "fatetmediate* Passengers only, at Intermediate rates, affording superior accommodation for that class.

American Continent.

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Passengers Booked through to all points and AROUND THE WORLD.

SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Navah Military, Diplomatic and Civli Servicos; and to Küropean Officials in the Service of China and Japan Governments.

For fasther information, Maps, Routes, Hand Books, Rates of Freight and Passage,

D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China, Reply to

Cornar Pedder Streit and Praya. Hongkong, 18th February, 18

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Shipping Steamers.

CIE. DES CHARGEURS

FOR

RÉUNIS.

Round the World Line.

STEAMER

SHANGHAI, CHINWANTAO (Tientsio and Peking), „KOBE, YOKOHAMA, HONOLULU, NORTH and SOUTH" CEYLON".

"PACIFIC" AMERICAN

COAST, Capt. Jouan BUENOS AYRES, MONTEVIDEO,

- without transhipment engaïommi

SAILING

MONDAY;

9th March,

THUS Steamer, Twin screw, 15,000, is Newly Built and has Superior Accommodation for at Class Passengers, Only Single and Double-berth Cabins, each fitted wi h Electric Fan, Steam Heaters, Writing Table and Wardrobe, Drawing-toom, Smoking-room, Hair Dressing room and Laundry. Doctor and Stewardess. The best line to go to Japan and America la visiting Peking and North China,

T

Reduced. Rates of Freight and Passage.

For further Particulars, apply to

Hongkong, toth February, 1908.""

FOR SINGAPORE," PENANG AND CALCUTTA

HE Steamship

"GREGORY APCAR," * Captain S. H. Belson, will be despatched for the above Ports, as TUESDAY, the 3rd

*March, at 3 F.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LIMITED,

Agents. Hongkong, 25th February, 1908. [256

NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.. LD. BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

{PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG,—SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).

For

SHANGHAI .....

MANILA........*

TIENTSIN..pame

Steamship

:.

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...............HANGBANG.TUESDAY, 3rd Mar., Noon. .....CHLONGSHİNG*WED'DAY, 4th Mar,, Noop, .........................YUENSANG* ......FRIDAY, 6th Mar., 4 P.M.

SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE) FOOKSANG"...FRIDAY, 13th Mar, 4 P.M. S'GAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTÄ.KUTSANG* ......TUESDAY, 17th-Mar, Nooo..

RETURN TOURS TO JAPAN AND BACK. OCCUPYING 74 DAYS.

The steamers Autsang, Namsang and Fortung leave about every 3 weeks for Shanghai and Yokohama (via Inland Bea) returning via Kobe and Moji to Hongkong, providing a stay of 5 to 6 days in Japan if passengers leave the steamer at Yokohama and rejoin at Kebe.

The vessels have all modern improvements and are fitted throughout with Electric Light. A duly qualified surgeon is also carried.

*The Steamers have superior accvatmodation for First-class Passengers, and are fittes throughout with Electric Lighti

Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading to Yangisie Pans, Chefoo and Tientsiv.

or Freight.or Passage, apply to

Hongkong, 49th February, 1988.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD.,

General Managers.

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CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

For

SHANGHAI ..............

HOIHOW & HAIPHONG

WEIHAIWEI, CHEFOO & TIENTSIN

MANILA ......

HAIPHONG.............

SHANGHAI

CEBU & ILOILO

NINGPO & SHANGHAI

SHANGHAI

MANILA, ZAMBOANGA & COLONIES ...

CEBU & ÍLOILO

Connecting at Tacoma with NORTHERN PACIFIO KAILWAY.

COMPANY:

PROPOSED SAILINGS From Honokono you VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACUMA.

TA

MUJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

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Sicamor

Captain Sailing.

|1 · 1908. Tremont...... 9,606 |г.W..Garlick... 17th Mar, Saverit... 6,232 Shotton 9th Apr. Kumeric 6,232 Cowley.......... 208 May..)

Cheap FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION, ATTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC LIGHT, DOCTOR, AND STEWARDESS.

J. MILLET AGENT,

FRENCH MAIL OFFICE,

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LOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY;" LIMITED. FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

HE; Company's Steamihip

"HAITAN, Captain J. S. Roach, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 3rd March, at 10 o'clock is.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 28th February, 1908.

Intimations

THE PROVIDENT LOAN

CHINA MORTGAGE CO., LD.

AND

GMA CLOWNE

|[Continued from page 5-】 The cold-blooded minner in which we were Assailed for tips by the boys before our depar- true made us wonder if they had learned from experience not to trust to what might be found in the baxes and whom they suspected of per- fidy, the guests or the hotel management.

The members of our party were divided as to whether we should wait till next day and see the sober, prosaic sights of the town first or make our initial visit to the casino that evon- ing. I was for going at once, since it was to be the unusual event, and my interest had been increased tenfold by the story told me at din ner, which had been printed in the London papers, of how Mis James Brown Potter, being almost stranded, had come down from Hong. kong and in a single evening's play had won

congregation, besides the military, nambered about 200, mostly Portugaese, Fenrous sprinkling of Chinese mes

of the better class. The Governor for family arrived just before the service began, two daughters sad a son ie richshaws, and his wile, his aid and blm velf in an open wagosaite. drawn by two mangy-looking ponies, The Governor and bli wife occupied two high- backed gift chair, and his family worshipped in

little enclosure in front, railed off from the from mass we climbed the stone steps of the rest of the congregation. On the way back be

ruins of the Church of San Paulo, which burned? down during a typhoon" in 1835. Only tho facade of the cathedral still stands, but sime has not yet blotted out the words "Mater Dei above the great portal, and the date 16na may still be deciphered upon the corner alone.

LIKE OLD PORTUGAL

sum sufficient to pay the salaries, and travel. The ancient streets and aliays of slacao are Ing expenses of her satire company to Singa.like a glimpse of Portugal in the Middle Ages, pore, and that only the night before a cooliead strangely incongruous they seem in this far away spot in Chiaz)? The worn stone pave', from Canton had cleared up nearly $1,000, and- in consequence the Chiness of the town were ments, the convents, crumbling and dilapi 10 ex lied that there was sure to be a perfect dated; old walls coated with moss and stone

crosses covered with creepers, all speak of rush of players that night. Then I wanted to see the contingent that had come down on the day that is past, in the shadow of these age boat with us at play, but, was assured that there browned walls one miels dark-complexioned would be just as many of the same type any old ladies in lace motillas, with rosaries in night is the week. We started to argue the their hands, and toasured, dark-robed menks, with ankles bare and feet' ingrough sandals question, when suddenly remembering that we were within the borders of the domain ruled hurrying to the monastery, with heads bent to ́reverie, oblivious of their worldly surroundings over by the goddess chance, we matched coins But it is Macso at night that is seducive and left the decision to her fickle majesty."

"Heads you winy tails I lose."

Fate frowned; 1 last, and we adjourned to the balcony to enjoy the marvellous beauty of the harbour by moonlight.

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A CHINESE GUIDE.

"Gambling is a most universal, all-devouring.. passion. Itha the whole world in iu grip butth

Macão vou finde concentrated the same power. Chinese seem to be its most abject slaves. In

and enthrallment that brings the fascinated" world to its glistening prototype, Moste Carlo, the great maalstro in of unsatisfied desire, where whose names meas the weath and power and one sees among the multitude men and women.

genius of the earth.

A guide was necessary when we set out next moming, and the one we procured to pilot us around was a marvel of his kind. He was the 1273 | tallest and most dignified locking Chinese that I had ever seen, and had he but pressed a

Qutside the all-pervading "spirit of play," monocle, I should have been firmly. convinced which is magic and patent, the conditions and that we were to the company of a duke in surroundings are the exact antithesis of those disguise. He talked with the drawl of an

in the European city of 'chance. At Monta aristocratic Englishman, interspersing his re

Carlo everything is voluptuously beautiful; the: marks with frequent expressions in French, Casino is the palace of a reigning Prince; bis and his languid "beg pawdon whenever he gold-laced liveried lackeys receive you as his was addrossed was inimitable. We learned guests (or, following some inscrutable law, res that for years he had been valet to his excelfuse you); you play in a gorgeously frescoed lency, the Governor of Hongkong, Sir William apartment of crimson and gold to the rhythml- Robinson, and, with the characteristic aptitu le cal strains of a Hungarian orchestra, and with of his race, had evidently become a living the satisfied feeling that you are in the com replica of that famous man,

paay of the elite of the world, dk

(Capital Paid UP...$1,000,000.) · Loans on Mougate of House Propony, &c.

Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Merchandise. Loans made on the Provident System.

(Rates and Particulars an application), THE OFFICE OF

I RUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c., Undertaken and Executed,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkous, 2nd December, 1907..

LIMITED.

- 148.

The twin-screw 5.8. Shawmut and Tremont GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, are fitted with very superior accommodation for fint and second class passengers. The large size of these vessels ensure steadiness at sea Electric fan in sach room. Barber's shop and steam-laundry. Cargo carried in cold storage.

† Cargoʻonly,

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Caska. of 375 tbr, net $6.00 per Cask ex Factory

PARCEL EXPRESS TO THE UNITED In Bage, of ago bi net $8.00 per Bag

STATES AND CANADA.

* or furiber Infomnution, Apply ta`

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General Agents,

STRAMURS.

TO SAIL

"YOCHOW

1st

Mar., daylight

'HUPEH ".....

1st

11

22

"HUICHOW"

4

11

IO A.M.

'TAMING"

3rd

4 P.M.

"CHIHLI".

4th

11

daylight.

Queen's Buildings.

41

14 P.M.

4th. 71

5th

7th

" KIUKIANG" {^... -.4th

+ BUNGKANG"

"LIANGCHOW

"SHANSI"

91b

* TAIYUAN".

"TEAN"*... KAIFONG'

............ 10th

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The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by these Neamers, which are fitted throughout with Electric Light, Corivalled table. A daly qualified Surgeon is carried...

Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangiare nad Northern China Porta.

Fat Freight of Passage, apply tb

Hongkong, 29:6 February, 1968.

Steamship.

ZAFIRO

RUBL...

ZAFIRO

4

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

HONGKONG

AGENTS.

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MANILA.

Highest Class, newest, fastest and most luxurious Steameri between Hongkong and Manila-Saloon amidships-Electric Light-Ferfect Cuisine-Surgeon and Stewardess carried. All the most up-to-date, arrangements for comfort" of Prasangers.

CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY. LIMITED.

Tous,

Captain.

For

1540 R. Rodger ..... 1540 Almond

MANILA

2540

R. Ro'ger...

Fen Freight or Passage, apply to

tlanbano, 29th February, ro 8

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Salling Dates.

SATURDAY, 7lb Mos.,

st. Noon ATURDAY, 14th Mar,

at Noon. SATURDAY, 21st Mar,

at Noon

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SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,

GENERAL MANAGERS.

Tu

HONGKONG-NEW YORK.

AMERICAN ASIATIC

STEAMSHIP CO.

FOR NEW YORK vin PORTS and SUEZ CANAL.

Steamship

(With Liberty to Call if the Malabar Coast),

SAINT PATRIOK! miyimme

For Freight and further information, apply to

Mongkong, 27th January, 1998.

To kail About the 16th March, 1908,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

akon 25th February, 1008 [9-20

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.

FOR LONDON, ANTWERP AND

HAMBURG,

*HE Steamship

THE

MONMOUTHSHIRE"

will be despatched for the above Ports, on or about the 31st March, 1908,, ^-

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

Agents.

[170 Hongkong, 28th February, 1908.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

SOUTH AMERICAN LINE,

REGULAR STEAMSHIP SERVICE BETWEEN

HONGKONG, CALLAO

AND

IQUIQUE. via JAPAN PORTS (KARATSU, KUBE and YOKOHAMA).

With liberty to call at HONOLULU and Salina Cruz. Steamers

Tons" To sail KASATO MARU.........6, too (Some lime First half of April.

Taking. Freight and Passengers to other Eastern and Western Coast ports of South America in connection "with Steamers of the Pacific S. N. Co.

For further information as to Freight and

·Passage, apply to

K. MATSDA, Manager, York Building.

Hongkong, 7th February, to 8.

STEAM TO CANTON,

HE'New Twin Screw Steel Steamora ·

THEN

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"EWONG TUNG“ „..Capt. I. W. WALKER. *KWONG SAI" Capt. E. S. CROWE,

Leave Hongkong for Caston evening, (Saturday excepted).

9 every

Leave Canton for Hongkong at 5.30 every evening, (Sunday excepted).

These Fine New Steamers baye DEExcelled Accommodation for First Class Passengers and are lit throughout by Electricity. Electric Fans in First Class Cablūs.

Passage Fare Single Journcy...54. Misalu

$1.25 each

ex Factory SHEWAN TOMES &.00,

Gene al Managers.

fa

. Hongkong, 3rd Databar, Bo-7.

PAEST BREING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE,

FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK

BY

SIEMSSEN & Co, Agents for

HONGKONG & South China. Hongkong, 29th July, 1987,

BWATOW DRAWN WORK COMPANY.

38, WELLINGTON STREET..

Dealers in all kind of :- HAND-MADE drawn CHINESE LINEN, GRASS CLOTH, &c., all of the best quality; ALSO

SWATOW BEST PEWTER-WARE.

THE GAMBLING HOUSES.

Our rickshaws sped along the Praia Grande,

In Macao everything is as it was when the a handsome promenade which extends along world was young; but the same brain-asked. the sea face lor abou: two miles, with Fort specimens of bumanity, with gleaming eyes Bum Pario on the wost and Fort San Francisco and silent lips, that watch the tiny roulette ball on the east. On this drive are the Governor's whirling in its ivory groove, and spinning so palace, the administration offices, the connerringly to the number foftuns herself has; bulates and the Chinese home of the famous chosen, at Monte Carlo, are found here sur Alocg. The Governor's residence is surroundmanding the Chinese croupier, living through ed by a magnificent garḍe, which is really á

an eternity of anguish as ho counts the fatal vez park. The house, a large, picturesque structure, coins which decide whether fate, has smiled or is in the contro and enclosed by a circular fence.frowned, ****. Quiside of this is a public garden, beautifully kept and full,to overflowing with - chrysa ›› themums and other bright-colored flowers.

The drive, which is shaded on either side by beautiful Japanese hanyan trees, follows the sea to the outskirts of Macao, where a large granite arch erected in 1849 indicates the place of demarcation between Chinese, and Por tuguese territory. On the Macao side are a number of small Government buildings oc- cupied by the military, and a sentry guards the entrance to the town. The arch is very plain, ́but beautiful in its simplicity of desigo, and bears the date of lis etection and the preten tious inscription i

"The eyes of the country are on you, and she does you honor."

We went in rickshaws from the hotel dow to within a few hundred yards, of the steamer wharf, and found the street o front of the

gaudy fan-tan house simply packed with these Oriental boggles. Squeeting through with much difficulty we entered a dirty, ill-lighted hallway, climbed op a wooden staircase 10 a large room, laminated by numbers of Chinese lanterns and lamps, mounted a fadder-like con- Trivança for reaching a gallery that ran around, the apartment, and looked down upon the players on the flor below.

was a greasy clath, and the croupier sat before Över the tables, instead of the grean baira,

arquare, in the corners of which ware marked- the numbers 1. 2. 3. 4. Near by, behind a wire- grating, reposed the banker, smoking a long pipe. The sound of drawling music came from somewhere off in the shadowy distance. The room was well filled but not crowded; and there i seemed to be no unusual excitement 'among' the players, who were predominantly Chipesej though several groups of white mea ware alse; gambling.

The game seemed not at all complicated, the four numbers marked on the aquare appear ing to bear the same relation to the gatio" ibat the zero mark and the thirty-six sections of the wheel do to joulette.

ATTEND CHURCH. Turning back and leaving the seashore on a road to the left, we passed a number of a small [s Chinese temples, and on this read also was a large firecracker factory, which we visited learning how the principal feature of Fourth of July celebrations is manufactured. Turning a sharp ciner from the firecracker factory, we

The croupier took at random a handful of entered the heart of the Chiness district, the || small coins from a receptacle at his side and dirtiest, filthiest place that one could possibly covered them with a sort of wooden bowl. conceive. The alleys were narrow and crooked. Then the players put their money on the name. and dark, and hundreds of pige helped to blocker, and when the betting had ceased he lift- ed the bowl and separated the bits of money. up the way, already congested with jabbering with a chopstick. He counted them by fours, Chinese, men, women and children. I scarcely and the remainder, or the last four if there was drew a breadth while being whirled through no remainder, represented the waving nom- this villainous section, and everything I had her. The betting is on the possible number of the remainder, and there is only one, two, thres ever beard of microbes came surging through or four to back-no colors or combinations,, a my brain. Since I actually escaped with no at rouge et soir or trente-et-quarente, mille

One cared not so much for the game, how. ill effects, I have ever since been skeptical of

ever, as to watch the players themselves. Pro fat wallets clutched in their hands, gamed perous looking Chinese merchants, with great together with not a glimmer of expression. 93. their yellow parchmaut faces. By the closest observation one could not detect whether they were winning or losing. They played solidly on, refreshing themselves now and then with my wr cup of tea, which was brought in by, an attendant, Forlorn, miserable-looking coolies. crept in, stood around, played their single coins lost, and sole away to procure for the morrow the wherewithal to try their luck again. The white men who were playing in different parts, of the room acted in a manner which was in marked contrast to that of the Chinese. They tell when they lost. were nervous and fidgetty, and it was easy to

CANTON EMBROIDERY and CHINESE the whole germ theory. After about five

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The Company's Wharf is situated in frosty of the New Western Market, opposite the old Harbour Office, M MA

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minutes' wild driving or travelling rather Bround corners and up steep alleys, we emerged into a wide open space, which was clean, fresh and wholesom, and one would never dream [51 that just around the corner was this awful hole filled with 6hh indescribable,. After going a few squares father are came to the garden of Camoens where the exiled Portuguese pot wrote the sondets celebrating the achieve enis of his ungrateful country. In the beautiful grotto at the heid of the garden ba is said to have written the Lusiad." There is a bronze bust of the poet, and set in the wall of the circular edclosure are a number of tables The Chinese ruined gives no sign; winning in which are inscribed verses from his peo, he is equally emotionless, and having lost at 'one being a sounet to Macao. This is ons of play he is not given to suicide; so that thing the, mest be uniful spots in the town and hanging from the limbs of the trees.

Monte Carlo of the Far East has no corpses unsurpassed by few other parks in that part of

**Here, with every;hing wiipped of ijs glamour,"

·China.

one seemed to be standing at the very fountain bead of all the evil resulting frond the ramifica tions of this fancipating vice. Travel you will you will find gambling in lis m diversified forms gripping, its victims throat; the high and the low, the rich, poor; the white, brown, yellow and Br bear the mark of its contamination, andro cou'd well imagine that in the germ-laden K masphere of this vile den in, Mação,min have emanated theểm crobe that hid carried this fatal malady ze the finbermost ends of a dambigie seeros to be the one", great full** which maker the whole world kin, and bat it we could say

5201, the Exet is the East, and ibp. were the Weath

Being Sunday morning, we returned to the hotel in time to attend mass at the Portuguese cathedral at it o'clock, Two hundred soldiers from Fort Bam Parto, preceded by a band, marched to the church, and, entering, alled about non-half the e'ifice. They remained standing uring the optire service, and looked very attractive is their neat uniforms of bluish gray. The music was rendered by a full orchestra, and the solos were particularly fine, At the elevation, the sharp, clear potes of the sacred music were taken up by the "beglers: The church has a very handsoms interier, and Flacks absolutely, the gau

acterizes the church.

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