from three cases of relapsing fever and of infection with Q'X 

 Distomum ringeri. Scheube says that relapsing fever is prob- 

 ably endemic in Hongkong but there it is considered a rare 

 affection and the physicians were greatly interested in these 

 cases which were imported from North China. Seven days 

 after the recovery of the last case, one of their office boys 

 developed the disease. — Hongkong is the only really European 

 city I have seen in the Orient. The English make it a point 

 to enjoy life. Dr Koch has a beautiful home, part way up 

 the "peak," and his wife and step-daughter, who are French- 

 English from Louisiana, put themselves out to entertain me. 

 His stepdaughter, Miss Blair, took part in a play, "One 

 Summer's Day," given by their Amateur Dramatic Club, so 

 we went to the last performance. It was very good and I 

 enjoyed myself immensely even if I did go in borrowed clothes. 

 — We are moving along at fifteen knots an hour towards 

 Singapore. There are a lot of Russian emigrants and Port 

 Arthur refugees aboard and they are the original human 

 pigs. I sleep on deck hereafter. My cabin mates are two bushy 

 Russians and a lanky Dutchman who has T B. Of course I pity 

 the poor fellow but draw the line at sleeping in a 6 x 5 cabin 

 with him. 



April 14, 1905: I don't know whether it is a sign of the 

 great ease with which we revert to a lower type, but somehow 

 my surroundings do not seem so bad to-day. 



April 22, 1905, Bay of Bengal: I intended to write every 

 day but have not felt up to it in these surroundings. Some of 

 the people are interesting "specimens," and I often wish I had 

 brought a roll of films for my camera. There is one old Russian 

 refugee on board whom I wish you could see. He is big, fat & 

 dirty, with a large and straggly bunch of Ivanovich whiskers; 

 and night or day he is to be seen clothed in the simplicity of a 

 pink Japanese kimono with large blue floral decorations! 

 Even the sailors smile when he passes by. . . . 



We stopped for about eighteen hours at Singapore which is 

 really beautiful. The Government Botanical Gardens, the 

 tropical residences and one's first experience with the real 

 Malay are all worthwhile. — I called on Dr Dindlayson, the 

 Govt bacteriologist, but made a very short stay as he was away 

 until almost time for the boat to leave. He proved delightful. 



