We steamed away for a year and a day to the land where the bam tree grows. … or China for short, and it was only a day at sea, not a year and a day. However, at this point in time I am becoming delirious as will be explained later. After a day at sea and spotting all sorts of floating things in the ocean we arrived in grey darkness in China. The port of Xingang to be precise. It was an eerie place, misty, dark and with lonesome horns from ships at sea. We had crossed the Yellow ocean, so called because of the amount of silt stirred up and the shallow depth. It was really spooky, mist, yellow water, strange horns in the mist and strange objects floating past. We arrived, as I
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