tied up to the wharf where a cargo of indigo in large wooden tubs was awaiting the steamer. The harbor of Santon is one of the best on the Chinese coast being land locked & entered by a narrow rocky entrance which makes it dangerous to proceed after dark turn it. Hartmann & I went ashore after breakfast & called on Humphreys, a general exporter whom Mr General Humphreys showed us from his ware houses where he had bales of goose feathers ready for export. We took a short run up the river in launch & saw rows of sampans manned by very large muscular coolies the strongest men in South China. They are great criminal being thieves & others murderers. On the streets facing