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tied up to the wharf where a cargo of Indigo in large wooden tubs was awaiting the steamer. The harbor of Swatow is one of the best on the Chinese coast being land locked & entered by a narrow rocky entrance which makes it dangerous to proceed after dark thru it. Hartmann & I went ashore after breakfast & called on Humphreys a general exporter whom he knew. Humphreys showed us thru his ware houses where he had bales of goose feathers ready for export. We took a short run up the river in a launch & saw rows of sampans manned by very large muscular coolies the strongest men in South China. They are quite criminal being thieves & at times murderers. On the streets facing