October 25, 1917 At daylight, we were traveling through level fields of ripe millet standing 3 feet high. Chinese were harvesting this crop in many places. Some miles away, sharp rocky hills could be seen and far away higher rugged ranges. In places, the track skirted the sea where low sand dunes were seen. The morning was raining, but at noon, it cleared and the sun shown. At every station, a guard of Chinese soldiers lined up on the station platform as a guard with fixed bayonets. They looked quite good in gray uniforms. In a few stations, there were Japanese guards also. The Manchurian houses are here rounded roofed without gables or tiles, but sod covered and look quite different from Chinese houses. At Shanhaikwan Station, we passed under the Great Wall which is here part of the city wall and reaches the sea. Beyond the City only a small section can be seen crossing the plain to the high rugged ranges marking the inland horizon. The railroad runs through level fields of millet with herds of black pigs, white sheep and a few large cattle grazing. It was not an engineering feat to build this line, as there is not a deep railroad cut or a tunnel on the whole line. The only trees in the landscape were willows, a line of which bordered the R.R. Others were seen about villages and a few on the borders of ponds and small streams.