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While we were at Ling Sioh Caldwell was attacked on his skin by a leach & when he first noticed his trouble he found a stream of blood flowing into his shoe & dropping on the brick pavement of the monastery.

This is a land leach & deposits in the blood a serum which prevents it from coagulating so that [[strikethrough]] if [[/strikethrough]] the blood cannot coagulate.  This was the first leach Caldwell had ever seen.  Andrews says these leaches are common in the Phillipines & Borneo.  China is doubtless their northern limit.

(4)  Reached Foochow early, soon after midnight & [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] tied to the wharf where we had started.  We all went ashore at daylight & tramped up the narrow streets to Kellogg's house where we took breakfasts
 
Day clear & hot.  Caldwell & Oliver left in the afternoon for their

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