town lies at the base of some hills on a narrow strip of beach dissected by canals of dirty water. The water of the harbour is also dirty and due to its shallowness. We looked on coal here, the barges coming off to meet us loaded with men throwing coal heavers. These built ladders up the side of the vessel from the coal barges & passed up the coal in baskets from one person to another. At 68 Mm. we went ashore & did some shopping. The streets are very narrow, only a few feet wide (there are no carriages or carts or horse drawn buses here). The place is dead from the hotels empty owing to the absence of Russian shirts. Now it is only a