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entertaining good-fellow.  On the train we added still another to the party, H.B. Ollerdessen, a local lawyer & at one time a football coach at Stanford University.  He told me that his grandfather was the 1st American to sail the Yangstze & his people have lived in China for years.  We had a dining compartment holding the 5 of us & we breakfasted as the train got under way.  The run was about 60 miles (3 1/2 hours). [[strikethrough]]The [[/strikethrough]] All the way thru a highly cultivated level [[strikethrough]] co [[/strikethrough]] plain, every inch of which was covered by various crops.  The greater part of the land [[strikethrough]] way [[/strikethrough]] was devoted to rice which was ripening or already harvested in some cases.  
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Fields of millet were also