one o'clock
In a few minutes they were landed at the town ; and then a crowd of coolies , as the laborers are called here , surrounded the party with sedans and rickshaws , and all were anxious for a job . The passengers waited till all the company had landed , and then took sedans or rickshaws for the Hong-Kong Hotel . It required twenty of them to accommodate the party . The commander and the consul went into the hotel ; and a lunch , or tiffin as it is called here as in India , was ordered for the tourists at one o'clock . Then the colonel instructed the coolies where to go , and the procession started for a round in the city . The buildings are constructed of granite , which is the material of the surrounding heights , the dwellings with verandas . `` How is the weather here , Colonel ? ''