The nearest Chinese character to Helen is Helen, by which they know me; though, no doubt myself as well in Chinese cannot easily be written but in Chinese but another name a translation numbered instead. The missionaries use Chinese by writing it phonetically in English and this way it is greatly simplif[ed] + many thousand characters yet elem[nated]. All the names of all the rivers from Hoochow down to monthly river are rice or sweet potatoes and tea. Tea is grown only at Yenping above. The rainiest months are from december 70th to July 12th when it often rains daily for long spells or low weeks running. From July to December it is drier but the midsummer is very hot. The finest months are October to December when it is dry and cool. During our trip in July it rained very little + the rice fields were very dry & suffered much.