October 13, 1917 The steamer Tungchow, C.N.C. sailed at 10am from the French Bund for Tientsin. Bryant, the Editor of the Far Eastern Review, was down to see us off and gave me a letter of introduction to a Peking friend. He spoke of Stern's work in excavating ancient buried cities in Desert China. Bumstead and wife are the only people I know on board. We cast off our moorings at 10 am and steamed down the Whangpo in a fresh north wind and clear bright sky. A large French Messangieres Steamer followed us out. At Wusung, we saw the large Empress of Asia at anchor waiting to proceed to America this afternoon. We crossed the mouth of the Yangtse behind the shelter of some large, low islands in the mouth. The son of the sea of Yangtse is very wide and it was not until 4pm that we reached the North side and passed the small, high island, with its white light house crowning the apex. The Yangtse is a uniform red brown muddy stream. Sea birds were quite lacking, - the only birds in sight being a few brown kites.