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a lark. He had been in
the
C:rmea, and 1 chief),¥ remelllbe:r hia Itorin about
the life there.
The:re waa a crowd cf
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ta:ry and naval offlcen whoa ona .a.
r8!':lembered.
ccnatantly me.tin&:. but none of them had
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General Straub.uzle .... the COIlI"Ander_in-Chief. but he .aa, at that t1lDe.
a General 'II'ithout troopl.
The
only naval
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m
that
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r_""'ber .al Sir Robert
l.tcCllll'e, the
man
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ho
had
recently achieved
the
North-Wnt panaca.
1
em
not lI'oll'a
it
wa. at thie
t1lne
he wae in Chlna b'.lt it h I.e .ell to mention
him here aa at any
t:l::le.
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al
up
and down the coa.t ..vera! time. "hile people were1Bit-
ing, 1 find from
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Ilrf
notu that 1 "eIlt to Shanghai in OCtober, IBo? in
tha
P.
&
O••teamer Qenge. and reIllalned there till the followin&: January.
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U"in& thh time • party waa made up to vhlt Nil1&Po and the Snowy Valley .
We chartered a IIIlllLll etea:Iler to take
Wi
to Ningpo, L"ld, al ahe
had
Tery
BIll8ll accl)l7Pdetione and we .era nine. we had • moet uncOll>fortabla trip.
It
Willi alBa very rOUf;h, .hich made
it
wona . Uter our arrival at l!ingpo
"
e arranged to go to
the
Valley, .here a larga Bllddbhh temple and
mag-
n1ficant $cenery .era the attractionl. Each one
at
WI
had
a boat to hlm-
lilt,
and the eervants. with the cQnIlI1sarlat.
had
other boats to themeel-
v.. . 1 d.are&a¥ the Icenery on the river 'I'al enchantlng. but ,
lUI
it
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IIae
night,
we
didn't aee
it.
When 'lie reached the landiI18 place early in the
morning, lome one tuggested that .e should 'IIalk to the Llonaltery and get
breakfast there. He thought it _I not tar _ at lealt, 1 hope he d.1d; it
not, he ought to be
lnlng.
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Ie plodded on all dB3 till four o'clock in the
afternoon with nothill€ to eat, before we arrived, and you can imagine the
temper we were in. There were no chairl and no meane of getting
~th1ng
to eat. Scenery bad no cha...
~,
for us that
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