Hotel at 11:00 A.M. Sun very bright & hot. In the afternoon I went ashore on the Amoy side & took a peep into this old Chinese city which is said to be the filthiest in all China. The water front or Bund as it is called here by Indian usage has large buildings of several stories. Behind these however there is a maze of narrow streets running in every direction & so twisted that it was very difficult for me to find my way back again into the waterfront. Shops & houses lined the streets but they were so narrow that the sun very seldom shone on them. They were flagged by granite blocks 8 wide x 2 feet in size. The smells or filth was not very apparent. Water is carried in buckets from the river there being no other source. Sewage there is none yet, the place is not very vile. Insects such as the house fly are rare owing to absence of horse manure that