About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms.

In like manner did the Cold Brandy-and-Water Sheet waft me now to the “Cider-Cellar”—now to the “Coal-Hole”! I heard a thousand voices cry, “ Hot with ”—“ Cold without ”—and saw a multitude of men, spinning like dervishes about me—spinning with tubs of oysters !

I highly recommend Donna Kossy's Strange Creations for a very interesting summary of fringe views on the origins of human beings, including those which fed into Naziism and Bolschevism.

All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.