StNicholas [serial] . efore wemoored stem and stern in Man-o-war Pool, offWoo-song Fort, and from here made many visitsto the ancient city. Our uniforms are a passporteverywhere we go; still, in doing old Shanghaiwe generally take a Chinese guide, who wears aribbonless sailors cap. The sights I have seenI need not write for fear of forgetting, and someof them will haunt me as long* as I live. While I shall ever think of the Canton Riveras a beautiful kaleidoscope with its shifting colorsof silken sails and pennants, such display ofwealth is probably nowhere else to be seen. How-ever, we have n
StNicholas [serial] . efore wemoored stem and stern in Man-o-war Pool, offWoo-song Fort, and from here made many visitsto the ancient city. Our uniforms are a passporteverywhere we go; still, in doing old Shanghaiwe generally take a Chinese guide, who wears aribbonless sailors cap. The sights I have seenI need not write for fear of forgetting, and someof them will haunt me as long* as I live. While I shall ever think of the Canton Riveras a beautiful kaleidoscope with its shifting colorsof silken sails and pennants, such display ofwealth is probably nowhere else to be seen. How-ever, we have not spent all of our time sight-seeing; we have been to Saddle Rock for drilland small-arm practice, shooting from the landat a moving target on the water, and from theships boats bobbing on the waves at a target onthe cliffs on the shore. Uncle Sam is more generous to the small-armshooting than in any other drill, giving cash prizes of five and ten dollars each. I have beenquite a lucky winner, and am hoping that when. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) we get to India some officer will see fit to take meinto the wilds with him to shoot his tiger. Ihave always longed to shoot Japanese pheasants,and have finally been gratified. It was one daywhen in training for a boxing match that is wait-ing for us when we get back to Yokohama, thatI was running along the levee, I came upon someEnglish lords who wore proud hunting togs andwere wasting good ammunition in the temptation was too great for me. I askedif I might take a shot. The result was I shookmy trainer and stayed with the lords until theirsacks were well filled and they had given me astring of them for our mess. I am almost sorryI did it, for, alluring as the anticipation of pheas-ant shooting has been, the reality is very muchlike shooting hens in your grandmothers chicken-yard. chi-fu- Chapter VIII NANCY LEE DRILL ISLAND TAPS. Latitude 360 N., Longitude 121° E., on the south-ern coast of the Bay of Korea,
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