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162 there to be paid on arrival. Annamite [[underline]] Pagodas much better kept than any of the Chinese Pagodas [[/underline]] I have seen in Canton. [[underline]] Blaquieres [[/underline]] drove me to [[underline]] Cholon, [[/underline]] the Chinese town near [[underline]] Saigon. [[/underline]] The [[underline]] Chinese here are not so dirty [[/underline]] as they are in Shangai or Canton Streets are [[underline]] wider and straight [[/underline]] and kept under supervision of Bureau of health "Bonzes" ^[[(Priests)]] in the Chinese Pagodas are good natured, ordinary looking chaps. They all look half-washed and their gray half washed clothing bare feet and shaven head make them look like coolies. Nothing [[end page]] [[start page]] 163 fanatical about them; [[strikethrough]] nor as [[/strikethrough]] very different from those Arabs. They seem [[underline]] good natured chaps rather unconcerned on what one does. [[/underline]] ready to engage in conversation, ready to [[underline]] accept or give a cigarettes, [[/underline]] or sell a few "Joss sticks", or hand you the sticks and blocks of wood with which people play and [[underline]] gamble [[/underline]] with their goods. I see several [[underline]] women [[/underline]] devoutly [[underline]] praying. Blaquiere [[/underline]] says there are more than usual, and there must be sickness in the family. This together with the fact that we saw a little paper toy ship in the river; which [[underline]] is intended to be set afire as a [[/underline]]