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(25)  We dropped anchor at Pak-Hoi at 7 A.M.  Morning rainy with heavy showers.  Pak-hoi is a struggling town built along a great crescent bay of yellow sand beach.  Capt. [[strikethrough]] Robinson [[/strikethrough]] Trowbridege took us ashore after tiffin to call on Dr. Bradly who is a British C.M.S. doctor who has a leper hospital here.  The Dr. was out but returned at 4 P.M. from a trip.  He is a very large tall chap of 35 years.  When we saw him wearing a bright red shirt we were much surprised but this color he has found very effecient against the sun's rays here, so he does not need a coat.  He has spent several months in Yunnan fu & journeyed thru the country down the Yangstze River.  He assured us that boys were difficult to get & got for us a Chinese cook at Pak-hoi who went with us for $25.00 a month.  A colera epidemic is now raging at Pak-Hoi.  The treatments 

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