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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To
our ,reat
.
urprhe.
we werc tMretold
th&t
our pan
had
Dot
been
illlued by a
sufficientl;r
high
otficer , find it.at we
could not go In. They then aald 'lUI were p:r1aollere and put WI in the guard
house . They did not , hO'llever , treat WI with
e.ny
rO\l&Melll , except laugh-
Lng
at
WI, and 4raYin,g their hMde acro.. their tbraatll with ..
dgnlf1-
cant ge.ture. We did not, however , teel
e.ny
«
reat alarm, as we were 0011-
vlnced they would not d.are to
ba=
'
Ill tor tear of complication. with
foreign authorlUu .
The
only dantl:Br
11'11.,
that
acme
of
tbe
underatrapper.
lllight be danf;erouB, not !mawtna
the
responsibility they were incurrln& .
At la.t. noticing
that
the guard over WI did not aeem to be ver.! atrict ,
we walked out L"ld dOWll to our boat and tbence w8nt on 'board . I do not
tl:.1nk: '"
were 1n
much ,
if
alI3.
danger,
but
our eervanta , who all had
their taU. , were 1n a great deal . ben no". I do not unc.entand how
•
they allowed thee to elcape .
We got another pau and the ne::<t
~
euccIl'lded in gettillo'l: into
the city .
1/1'1
traveraed
it
in all direction. without mole_tation . We
oalled on
llr .
Roberti. the millionary, who bad been the original teacher
of the Tae-plll& Wan . He B81d
he
wa. poorerleu to help UI, b'llt that he
clid not. think "e Ihould be moluted. which proved to be the cale , and we
got on board ,ately in the eveniD4!: . Roberti went. to Xanklng lmroedie.tely
after it, capt=e b.. the Rebell . At firet,
he
1
I'f!.1 r eceived with open
arml aa hal'il"l4!: been the teacher
ot
the great 'tae Ping- Wang . but they
loon 10lt their relpect. for
h.1m .
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one occa.ion. the Eastern King
,
l.e.pped hit face. Bobertl , in obedience to thil Scripture commend,
turned the other cheek to him, wl::ereupon the King elapped that, too.
!
believe t hat
Itr.
Roberti wal tinally obliged to flee tor hil
life
to
Shanghai, and quite gave
Uf>
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that
hil Rebell were
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