"A heavy, sultry heat had settled over the city, a miasma compounded of the delta mud, sweating humanity, inadequate sewage along the Hliang River, the smells of cooking food and the exudations from the teak mills and the refineries. Gaudy neon and electric signs sparkled, flashed and whirled in the Chinese quarter. Durell was hungry, but there was no time to eat."
1961.