364 ALI. ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

little later, “and we shall drop anchor in harbor "fore the sun sets.”

“Have you been there?” .

“Oh, yes,” said Jack with an air. of indifference, as if going to
Hong Kong fifty or sixty times in a year even, was a matter of
very little consequence. “To go to Hong Kong is gettin’ to be rather
comr.on nowadays,” affirmed this world-renowned traveller.

ho would have supposed such an amount of cosmopolitan experi-
ence was under the roof of that battered old tarpaulin? Uncle Nat
now approached.

“Hong Kong is an island, and not so very big, either. It is nine
miles long and from two to six wide. You will see that parts are
pretty high —eighteen hundred feet, at least, above the sea, and the
city of Victoria is hilly, as you will notice. The harbor has quite
a pretty entrance, and we will have a sail among some islands.”

The Antelope was hailed by a Chinese pilot-boat or sampan; the
home of the pilot and all his family.

“Me sailee up to Victoriee,’ said the pilot to Uncle Nat, and
he winked his dark eyes in a rapid, funny, good-humored way.
Coming to its moorings, the chain-cable of. the Antelope went clanking
into the water, and there, after a long race from Australia, the
vessel rested as if in the bottom of a deep cup, the hills all about
it. The boys looked off and saw Victoria, a city that had a European
look, sloping up a hill-side, street rising above street, like a succession
of terraces. There were steamers at their wharves, while around
the Antelope lay many sailing vessels at. anchor.

“What a funny ship that is, Uncle Nat?” said Ralph.

“That is a Chinese junk. You see what a high poop or stern she
has, and how they have built up her forecastle.”

“ Are those eyes?” said Rick, catching a look at her bow.

“Yes; they carry two big eyes.” |