entertaining good-fellow on the train we added still another to the party H.B. Ollerdussen, a local lawyer who one time was football coach at Stanford University. He told me that his grandfather was the 1st American to sail the Yangtze & his people have lived in China for years. We had a dining compartment holding the 5 of us & we breakfasted as the train got under way. The run was about 60 miles (3 1/2 hrs). All the way there a highly cultivated rice plain, every inch of which was covered by various crops. The greater part of the land was devoted to rice which was ripening or already harvested in some cases. Fields of millet were also