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looted the whole place. [[underline]] R.R connections with Pekin [/underline]] are again partly in operation but service ^[[service]] [[underline]] unsatisfactory [[/underline]] Took walk in Chinese Quarter near by. [[strikethrough]] Indescr [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Almost impossible to describe [[/underline]] Noisy crowded, small crowded streets, jostling Chinese men women and children. All looks [[underline]] very dirty and squalid [[/underline]] All eating, jabbering, and what [[underline]] incredible food? [[/underline]] Pickled, dried, smoked in every fashion [[underline]] "Bêche de mer" [[/underline]] looks impossible. In the midst of it all a [[strikethrough]] padded [[/strikethrough]] good natured jabbering, buying, selling, eating crowd. Some wear [[underline]] sandals, [[/underline]] other [[strikethrough]] silk [[/strikethrough]] black [[underline]] silk slippers, ^[[many]] others bare-footed altho' it is cold. Children [[/underline]] look red cheeked
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well fed, happy and [[underline]] very dirty. [[/underline]] Our slums in New York seem less dirty in comparison. 
Incredible yet very ingenious instruments. I saw a very clever simple hand drill, which functioned by a heavy [[strikethrough]] ring [[/strikethrough]] revolving ring over the shaft which by an up and downward stroke of a cross stick, maneuvered a [[underline]] drill [[/underline]] in a very efficient way. Then [[underline]] old "roman" [[/underline]] scales made of a stick and suspension, a plain sliding rope on which hung a weight, everything [[strikethrough]] astound [[/strikethrough]] extraordinarily simple and clever, and built with the very simplest
[[image: diagram of the scale]]