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.
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the
next
da¥
about noon .
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cenery
bere
wa.
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had
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Unt of
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ee
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place bad been deBtrayed and re_deatroyed by
the
Rebeh .
and
the
whole population at thh
tilDe
con.1sted of a tew hundred l'agabond.
of the lowe.t and moat
f1lt~
deacriptioll.
We Blcended one of the guard
hou• .,. from whenee
we
had.
a good vie. of
the
whole
plaee.
Here
"
at
a eity
of from half a milllon to a million inhabltlUlt., without one boull atand–
ing .
Fane;)' New York in .ueh a .t&tai It tral evident.
that
no trade wa.
te be done here and
that
the
Englhh
had been laId in one of their ports .
So
tar,
all
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bad.
.
een to admire
wal the
~tlc.nt
rival' ·Child of the
Ocean,- a8 ita
~
mean. when
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e arrived at Nanking. few hour. after leavin.o!: CUnkeang . 'll'e
were now in the Bebel distrIct. and had to be cautloUI.
!
l'he
afternoon _
arrived,
it
bei~
too late to attempt
the cit)',
we landed on the beach
opposite the Bhip,
and
were loon attracted b;r.
_11
crowd nearby.
on
reachin& it ...e found that a ...oman had Just been beheaded. 'Ie alkeil of
...
hat crime
,:!:
Ie
had
been guilty
and
they said that
.
he
did
not speal!: the
llaa;.e dial,ct they did, therefore, the)' thought
IIW!
lII1ut be an
imp
,
and
cut
off her
head.
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-
imp"
mean,
ImperlaU,t.
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8
D
d
of the part)' could not have been higher than a corporal! This "as Ol.lr
introri:u.ction to the Rebeh
and
to their
"8;1
of doing busine... We Ba...
a good deal of them afterwardll, and fuller acquaintance confirmed Hut
imprellSiou.- that the)' were the biggeut Icound.reh on the faee of the
earth.
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about ten o'clock in the mornlI!&. 'Ie had to ro ... ,ome fol.lr mile.
up
a
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