This included a good six orvs a day in the HLHG (Hard Light Hologram) Simulation Room. This room could create an unlimited number of battle scenarios by way of quality hard light holograms; it was a key staple in Brigade training.

A commodity almost scarcer than any other, and rendered doubly, quadruply, nay decuply scarce by the bare fact that, being the principal currency abroad, as well as at home, the whole world are scrambling with one another to obtain it, and competitors against us in every market for securing the first and largest supplies of it?

In the later Ching period there were at least three military installations on Lantau 一 at Tung Chung, Tai O and Fan Lau, another on Cheung Chau, and a considerable number of troops in the Kowloon Walled City.

The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; […]