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It is sometimes a lovely experience to be on a ship that is slowly creeping towards harbour in the Near or Far East at about the hour of dawn. The sea is quiet and clear and flat, its colouring a delicate pastel aquamarine, and gulls circle around hungrily and hopefully.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 1