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The spinous problem shifted from the how to find minima efficiently to what method should be employed to provide a better connection between the topography and the dynamics on the surface.

I had been given another job – the digging of a drophole for the outhouse toilet.

After three days the boat brought us to Liuchow, the end of waterway traffic. From there on, it was train and truck travel. With rails salvaged ahead of the Japanese advances into North China a new line had been laid from Liuchow more than two hundred miles in the direction of Chungking.