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noUced that wherever 1 have been in Cbina. where foreignere were unknown,
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wae well treated. but on going back to
the
eaoe place efter lome monthll
of intercourse with the ranqui, I ..... badly reoeived. The only u:planaUon
of thie 11 that the bad 'lualiUe. of the foreigner
had.
had
time to become
known.
On
thie trip to
Hang_c~w,
we aaw the Sehoo Lake and the region of
te;uplee
that
Cooke
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nt.
let tors to the -Times . -
I Ihould not venture to follow hie dUcription, but I would reconnend eVlr,y
one to read it who hal
an;;r
inter..t in I=h .ulJJectl. Indeed. I cannot
concdve of
IIE$
one wUhout an intereet in them., when one lalow. how to
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lITHe a. Cooke certainly did. In nearly all of theee exeurlion. Endicott
wa. one of
m,y
cOIIlpaniODl. 1 think I have alread,y told how we firat IotIlW
each other.
There
1&
little lIIOrfl to eay about our dal.ly life at thi. time.
Enr,ythillO!: wall 'IIaitilli for the moving of
the
water. in India. by which
China would get back the troopl .he had lent. ),lllanwhilll,
O".lr
bue1nelll
went on 'IIlthout let or hindrance.
On
the whole,
it
wal very profitable.
runnln,g from $180,000 to $200.000 a year.
J\
good deal of tht., however, had
to
be
written bac;'; when returne were received frOlll the teae
we
had eent to
Ec&land and 1marica. Teal were ,generally lodng money
dur1~
that year,
but
the
bualnen of the houlS wallO ,good that it could Itand IllUCh heavier
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In
1859
or 1860 I carried out a plan I had often thought of. Thil
wall to order a river Iteemer from Ameriea, 1
had
no partic1l.b,r plan for
her amploywmt. but I 'IIaa convinced that frOlll the opening up of China
whieh could not fail to result frOID the
war,
Itea:nera must be =h wanted.
If
othllr thing. failed, she could alwa;yl earn a l1vill& on the Canton River.
So I ee:'!t Captain Joh:.on to .Amerlca to build and bt"lng out a Iteamer of
?
OO tone. The gr' I!at lllilta«:e I made wal in IenUng a man like Johnson.
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