October 15, 1917 This morning at 6am, we steamed into the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wei and dropped anchor about 1/2 mile off the port, as there is no dock at this station. The harbor is a beautifully land locked one, encircled by a tall line of sharp, bare peaks. The water is deep and clear sea green. Back of the sand beach, the land slopes up to the hills, and the town (British) occupies the rising ground near the west entrance. The old Chinese town with its Great Wall encircling it occupies the head of the bay where the land is low and level. The beach line looked beautifully sandy and fine for bathing. A large garrison of native troops under British officers were stationed in barracks near the West entrance. Junks and Sampans with crews of fishermen were scattered over the bay and sea beyond. The hills were bare yellow granite or gneiss with a few scrubby green brushes thinly scattered about. A few large white gulls were sitting on the surface of the bay and further out, the cormorants sat in rows on exposed rocks. The summer cottages and school houses looked very comfortable and European. Leaving Wei-hai-wei at 7pm, we steamed up the coast to Cheefu where we dropped anchor 4 hours later at 11pm. The eastern side of the entrance is protected by a long line of low yellow rocky hills which extend far out into the blue sea and are continued at their tip by a further small yellow island of linear shape. The Captain told us of a Japanese steamer which went ashore on this point in a heavy snow storm last Winter. The boat mistook one of the gaps in the sharp peaks for the entrance and ran