We left Nanking at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and arrived at Quin. san at midnight, having a ptuous dinner out of tins, supplie by Mr. Wen, to which the Admiral' cook added tomato soup and oranges all round as an_ afterthought. A chair met the Admiral but as our coming was unannounced, we were greeted only by unbelievable swarms of fies and by smells which cortainly had as much substance and form as any spirit materialized in a seance. Sleep was the first prob-Tem, since Admiral Tu proposed to talk with Marshal Chi for the rest of the night, so we were ushered into the room of the night transport officer while the station master hunt-od the sidings for a passenger coach in which we could sleep. The sleepless little officer who was our host for the moment tried to be hospitable but could not produce much except fies whose numbers I hesitate to guess at and a sick soldier who groaned in his sleep.
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