Lily In the Chimoipo Bar

The catch, Scarlet Queen Philip Carney master position 123 degrees West 38 degrees 17 minutes north gyro compass course 327 wind fresh sky fair remarks proceeding from Jinsen Korea to Tianjin China with dead man aboard reason for death the Lily and the Chamopo bar it was a fair trip and a fast one through the

inland sea then south through the channel of Chushima Kaikyo and into the long rolling swells of the East China Sea. The Scarlet Queen was north of the trades now and she reached around the tip of the Korean peninsula with the spanking passage wind of beam and swung her bows into the Yellow Sea. The angle of the wind moved

the bath and we trimmed her for the run-up to Korean coast. The next day we ducked in Jensen and Harvard. It was an unscheduled stop on the chartered voyage of the Scarlet Queen. No kang contact to meet until we made Shanghai and that meant no danger from Kang's rival, Konstantino.

But we did need the port to take care of some minor ship repairs that we didn't have time for in Kobe due to the Konstantino trouble that developed around Kang's Boston Geisha and Chesapeake Bay.

So, Jin Sen was one port where I thought I could look for some relaxation instead of someone sneaking up behind me. My chief mate Gallagher and the crew turned to on sale repairs and I wandered up into the dusty city.

The street was typically oriental, buttling with movement, most of it concerned with carrying a burden of some kind from one place to one other. Forts and carts, trucks, rickshaws, men bent double from heavy loads on their shoulders.