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other foreigners In Chlna. In)dr . Meadow'l bock
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lide very ttrOll£"ly . I think, however , that they generally gave up the
idea beforl:l the end. In
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an,y
one who had the cbance to travel
tlu'o~
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to the oplnion that they .ere nothing but
a
horde of rapaciou.e
marauderl .
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a p roof of thil . The whole population did
not Iltceed
70,000
and thll in
a
city intended for a million, In fact ,
the garri,on _I the population. The IIW'rounding country had been d"a'_
tated for their lupport , and thil
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it
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l'at evident thllt they .ould loon haYe to ,eek "palturel new,"
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well
kn01m.
are the woret kind of iconoclaltl ,
They destroysd everything wl'..1ch
h&d
a semblance of a religioue beltef ,
and probably , for thil reaeon , the f8lll0'WI porcelain tower had been blown
up .
I
was anxiou. to secure lome
I~ntol
of this place, which
had
been f&miltlll" to
me
since childhood from the prints in the old 8cOOol
boob.
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we rOiled up to the site and brov.e;ht awe;! a good lot .
I
also
arranged. With one of the men about the place to get me a lot IIIOre , and
haYe them
rea~
on
our
return . I
had
ltttle expectation that he would
keep hil word, but
he
dld , and I found a basketful r·aay for me when 'l'e
cace
down
the
river .
Ie left l;ankl.n attar a ata,y there of two dayl . A. we paned
the
fort. they fired on UI, which _a rather Itr8Jl&e, al .hils at anchor off
ths plaea they could have lunk 'WI .ith the greaU8t ease. HOW1lYer, they
dld not hit us .
Proll !lank1n to 100000 , ,our ne%t Itopplng place , Wfl.1 an eight
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