Kweeds, On shore there was much life on the street, many foreigners & Europeans, both sexes being in evidence. We reached the wharf @ 13 P.M., + @ took a rich show to the Palace Hotel where I took rooms. The hotel has a good Table + the rooms are furnished with flush closets + a good modern bath which are luxuries not found at the Astor Hotel. Harbawen went to the Shanghai Club, for which he is a member. In the park the chief trees were Sycamores & Plane trees and maples + etc. once realized that I was out of the tropics. On June