Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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boy wu in
the
habit of eupplying
the
table
and of PBfing
the expense. of the bouse
.
hile
in J.taeao . L'ld I recouped him when ...e lett. .
Thie,
~pily.
occurred to me, and I aeked him how lINCh lowed
him•
.1
bout
one hwldred dollars
he
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aid. 'Very ".11 , " 8ald I. ·Suppa•• no got chair ,
no got dollar," The chair never C8lII8 80 quick before I
When I W.8 la1d
up
in ldaeao with a 1_ leg, I could ecareel¥ get
f rQIII ene chair to another, I
wa.
eitting at
the
breekf.et table one morn_
ing
and bad been calling for
the
coolie for BQI!Ie time without any 8=0....
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I could hear tha:lI talking. 1 kne., they could bear me and I ea_
that
tlley thought I was helple...
By
aIld by , taking
hi,
own time,
the
houe.
coolie cm:.e loafing along but
he,
a.eCldentall:r. paBaed
~
jU&t 'll'itbin
rueh of
I1J:f
ham!.. I ce'll.ght
hill!
by hI. 100118
dre••
and
he
w.e
thorOU€bly
thrashed befolll
he
knew
whenl
he
wae. Luc:dly, there wae a riding
whip
within
I!JII
reach.
Lord Elgin, .tth a
~ll
equadron , eonsi'ting
ot
the Furious and
Retribution, .team frigates. and the
M:.!.
and Plover , gunboats , had made
t ake a
an expedition
'
Up
the
river to look at
hi.
new acquhitions. The river was
entire~
unkno'R, but of C01ll"e they made rOl,l,gh charts a. they went along .
Thn. did not fllIIOlmt to much. they s1.:nply showed where the men-ot_war
had been a.hore, and enabled or. t o avoid the .ame. The newly opened
perh were Klukeang , Chlnkean&
and
Hankow, but the ri1'er ran by a nUlllber
of ether large and 1lIIportant cities . The Rebels held IIIOre thaD. 200 lllile.
of
the
banke . A full
e.c c oun~
of Lord Elgin" trip 11 giyen by Olyphant
in his book upon the expedition, written by him as ucretaq .
It l'D,..d.1ately eccurred to me that the lire-Dart had COllIS into
01
ll' hands at eltactly the IIIOMnt
.
he
.
al needed, and ..a. at our urvice for
an e:r:ploring eltpedition
up
the river in the intereat of our bu.ineu,
and
that
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