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[[strikethrough]] Shal [[/strikethrough]] Shameen is well laid out with fine cement walks, wide lawns & large buildings & here there is no evidence of Chinese occupation. After taking a room in the Victoria which is run by a frenchman I hired a Chinese guide & 2 sedan chairs to view the city & we started out at 10 A.M. I was surprised to find the city fairly clean with few bad smell such as Amoy reeks with. [[marginalia]] symbol: right arrow [[/marginalia]] The streets are paved with tranvese slabs of granite as usual with a sort of suerage beneath the stones. There were no flies or annoying insects to be seen nore were there dogs to any extent. I saw only a few & these were well kept & clean.
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"Amoy" is a former English name of Xiamen, a city on the Chinese mainland across the strait from Taiwan.