Lung-hai in Fukien There is an enlightening report about Lung-hai county (龍海縣). Lung-hai is three or four miles from the sea, and 28 km by sea from the city of Amoy.

[…] that’d just give me time to show you the ropes—you know, innerduce you to my contacts, set you up, so to speak—that is, if you react favorably to my proposition.

For some women, this is their first pageant experience, while others are 'career' pageanteers, who started as young as four.

Feverish eyes of mariners weatherbeaten in a thousand voyages, burning eyes of jailbirds yanked from Andalusian prisons and embarked by force: these eyes see no prophetic reflections of gold and silver in the foam of the waves, nor in the country and river birds that keep flying over the ships, nor in the green rushes and branches thick with shells that drift in the sargassos.