and at daylight we were anchored in the Pei-Ho River Taky but disembarked at Taungbin R.R. station & took the train to Tientsin. This was a 2 hour ride. We passed through the flooded district and saw villages & houses standing in 7 or 4 feet of muddy water. The refugees were gathered in cave huts along the R.R. embankment in the such villages as were on high ground & had escaped. The tops of some fields with grain were to be seen all along the way, but this gain had not yet been harvested. On reaching Tientsin we went at once to find Somerby at the Tientsin Times Gazette where he is now holding down the Editorial Chair. We found him a fine man of 40 years the sort that is capable of carrying through anything