From far-away Hong Kong and Singapore came mountain gunners equal to any in the world, Kroomen sent from their homes in West Africa surf boatmen to land stores, Raratongas from the Southern Pacific vied with them in boat craft and beat them in physique, while Egypt contributed a labour corps and transport corps running a long way into six figures.

"It is a Round Robin from the Admiral and my son Tom, who have been making acquaintance in Hong Kong.

The next day he was afloat again, on his way to Hong-Kong.

We hope to reach Hong-Kong on Thursday next; but that is not the end of my voyage, though it is the beginning of my work.

I am glad that the time for work is arriving, though I cannot but feel a little nervous anxiety until I know what I shall learn at Hong-Kong respecting our prospects with the Chinese, &c. &c. Arrived at Hong-Kong on the following day, he found letters from his brother Frederick'generous and magnanimous as ever'giving him some hope of there being an opening for diplomacy, and a chance of settling matters speedily.

I am glad that the time for work is arriving, though I cannot but feel a little nervous anxiety until I know what I shall learn at Hong-Kong respecting our prospects with the Chinese, &c. &c. Arrived at Hong-Kong on the following day, he found letters from his brother Frederick'generous and magnanimous as ever'giving him some hope of there being an opening for diplomacy, and a chance of settling matters speedily.

They both appear to be worthy men, and it made me sad to see them on the beach in Manila for the need of passage to Hong-Kong, or some other place where they would be more likely to get a ship.

They signed with the commissioner, and will get four Hong-Kong dollars for the trip.

"Will you have to turn back to Manila on account of this?" "My last orders to proceed to Hong-Kong at the best speed still stand.

Otherwise, you will simply be restricted to your cabin until we reach Hong-Kong.

The best that I could make of the whole affair was that Meeker took me for a spy, as I had suspected from the first, and in order to prevent me from going to Hong-Kong for some purpose opposed to the plans of his masters, had done his best to keep me out of the steamer.

To further embarrass me and prevent me from accomplishing the object of my supposed mission in Hong-Kong, he had got me involved in a crime from which I knew I would have a great deal of difficulty in getting myself free, especially as Petrak seemed willing enough to testify against me even though he should hang for the murder.

"I went through Trego's papers, and the best I can make out of a lot of foreign writing is that it is going to Hong-Kong to buy coal for the Baltic fleet.

At first they were going to make their headquarters in Manila and do the business there; but the most of the trampscolliersare British, and they found it easier to do business out of Hong-Kong, I suppose, because the Japanese could keep close watch of suspicious vessels making Manila a port of call.

"Then last year the steamer Legaspi left Manila for Hong-Kong with cattle and Christmas goods and passengers, and never was heard from.

By this time the ship left Callao for Honolulu, Manila, Hong Kong, and, as the Challenger had not crossed the Pacific Ocean in these directions, we made several soundings and deep-sea thermometrical measurements from Callao to Honolulu.

SEE Polley, Mary E. COOPER, MERIAN C. King Kong.

KINGSLEY, HAROLD. Kong.

SEE Polley, Mary E. COOPER, MERIAN C. King Kong.

Hong-Kong, Melbourne, Sydney, Halifax, Cape Town, Bombayyes, and Rio and Valparaiso, Shanghai, San Francisco, New York, Boston, these and the lands back of them, where countless millions dwell, were all safe behind the barrier of that fleet.

"I am a stranger in your city, a monk from a monastery in Kong-chiu.

He could not shake off the impression; he had made the long voyage to the nearest telegraph station, and thence had telegraphed to another brother in, let us say, Hong Kong, 'Is all well with John?'

For evidence we need Captain 's account, his Hong Kong brother's account, date of the dance, official date of the Peruvian brother's death, and so on.

" Nov. 3, 1897, the American Consul at Hong Kong gave this account of Mr. Agoncillo, who is an interesting person because of his celebrity for insistent and vain letters written at Washington, and his flight to Canada when the Filipinos attacked the Americans at Manila: Mr. Wildman to Mr. Day.

" Mr. Pratt, the United States Consul General at Singapore, took in hand Aguinaldothis was April 28and got him off to Hong Kong, having had this correspondence by cable with Admiral Dewey: Aguinaldo, insurgent leader, here.