"18" dropped anchor at daylight at mouth of Min River to wait for tide to clear as river is too shallow for the Harlan. Entered the mouth of the River at 10 AM + steamed up. Water a dirty brown. Hills bordering river terraced to summit by hundreds of short terraces in which tea was formerly grown but then are now abandoned owing to want of market for this graded tea. Valley given over to rice fields. Here there were villages with many gardens in the foreground. Huts of stone walls or cement ramparts stood at entrance of the harbour. Inner gate Mountains were high and two feet but without forests only green, short grass on the summits. Prof. C.R. Kellogg met me at Pagoda Island where this steamer anchors as the river is too shallow to go further.