As she rode her chevaline across Dovetail, she came to a height-of-land 
that afforded a fine view across the Leased Territories, Pudong, and Shanghai 
on a clear day. But the humidity had congealed into drifts of clouds forming a 
seamless layer about a thousand feet below their level, so that this high 
territory at the top of New Chusan seemed to be an island, the only land in all 
the world except for the snowcapped cone of the Nippon Clave a few miles up the 
coast.