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reply. --You see, Mr. Fairchild, we have many, 
many matters to keep in consideration all the 
time and all of my work is only a one man's job 
and without having the benefit of the stimulat- 
ing influences of enthusiastic fellow-workers in 
,the same field. 
Uy old interpreter, who knew so much about 
this v/ork, has left me since a fortnight already. 
He didn't like the climate, the people and the 
food and the easiest way to get rid of such 
things is to quit, of course, and he did so. 
What would become of our social structure if we 
all did the satnej Of course no one can stand 
hardships forever and I long to have a garden 
of my own in a cool, bracing region, but, --I'll 
first try to finish a few pieces of work that 
have been entrusted to me. 
The overcrowded conditions here in Hupeh 
are due to indiscriminate breeding of human 
beings, not having much brains. China has had 
wars enoiigh and bloody revolutions by the 
hundreds, with the results that the better 
families have been exterminated all the time 
by the rabble, and coolies only have been left 
to perpetuate a non-intellectual race. 
How Science in the future will treat such 
over-crowded countries, alive with human weeds, 
I have no idea. Professor L. H. Bailey and my- 
self have had some solid talks about this sub- 
ject, but — v/e'had to admit that at the present 
we have no means of effecting a cure. 
T wonder whether you received my cablegram 
stating that I had SlJO.OO balance. I sent it 
off from here on June ??; your letter is dated 
June ?7, and was stamped June P9, 6:30 p.m., 
but you didn't mention a word about the receipt 
of it. 
I am intend to leave Hankow Saturday August 4 
by train for a station in the mountains in So. 
Horian, Chikungshan, by name. It is 5 hours by 
rail from here and there are many missionaries 
assembled there for the hot season and some know 
a whole lot about wild vegetation in the mountains. 
Then I'll cross into Hupeh to the S. E. and pass 
thru' a mountainous district until I strike the 
Han River and from there to Kingmen, v/here my con- 
tract for wild pear seeds comj)els me to be in 
early September. 
After that we'll see again what will happen. 
The weather is hot and at times extremely 
December 31, I917, 
