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English residents
    of Hong Kong cannot go about the streets of the city without
    seeing these places; there are draper-shops and other places
    visited daily and hourly by respectable foreigners and natives,
    occupying the ground floor of these brothels. The fine new
    building of the Girls' High School, under the management of the
    Government, is within five minutes' walk; yet all these brothels
    are glaringly numbered, as registered by the city, in huge figures
    eight or ten inches high, of red on a white background, painted
    on the doors of the stairways leading to the second story of the
    buildings occupied by these shops. The school children cannot pass
    by without noting these officially numbered houses, and seeing
    the girls sitting at all hours of the day and into the night
    conspicuously in the balconies over the shops of drapers, grocers,
    tailors, silk-merchants, shoe-dealers, &c., &c., and often hearing
    them calling to each other from house to house, and to the men in
    the public streets below. Mrs. Andrew, when in the street, March
    2nd, saw a group of these slave-women calling down to three
    policemen, who were looking up and laughing at them. These are
    daily sights."

The unblushing parade of forms of vice, which have been manufactured
in the Orient especially to meet the demands of renegade members of
Christian civilization, can be seen in a peculiarly painful and brazen
form in the city of Hong Kong.

While we were at Hong Kong, there occured a great celebration in honor
of the repair and rededication of an important Buddhist temple.
There was a grand procession, and many thousands of Chinese from the
mainland came over to witness the celebration. The parade formed in
the early morning and went a