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The night was sweltering hot, even for Hong Kong. The town clock had just chimed a quarter-past ten, and though the actual sound of the striking had died away, the vibration of the bells lingered for nearly half a minute on the murky stillness of the air. In spite of the exertions of the punkah coolie, the billiard-room of the Occidental Hotel was like the furnace-doors of Sheol. Benwell, of the Chinese Revenue cutter Y-Chang, and Peckle, of the English cruiser Tartaric, stripped nearly to the buff, were laboriously engaged upon a hundred up; while Maloney, of the San Francisco mail-boat, and I, George De Normanville, looked on, and encouraged them with sarcasms and utterly irrational advice. Between times the subdued jabbering of a group of rickshaw coolies, across the pavement

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  • ISBN-13: 9781514737194
  • ISBN-10: 1514737191
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: June 2015
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.27 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.39 pounds
  • Page Count: 126

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