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.
132
hour.' trip and a Tel')' pretty one. We passed the Teen
J.!un,
<;>1'
heavenly
gate .
Thil h
a place where the river contracts It.aelf to a channel 60
or 70 yards wide , each stoia IQ8.rked by rod,,· blurt. called the
Ea.t
and
"
eat Pillars . The Chinese IUl.UieI are Se-!.eang-8han and 'l'un&-Leani'-8han.
The
seer.ery here
h
very tine • • e anchored Just below 1/oohoo, off
what
appeared to be a lort of parade ground, acron which a large DUlllber of
Rebel. in
£8¥
costume ..ere gallopi nt;. makill8 the !teens a bright one .
On the city
walla
were a string of head..
J.
nWDher of
the
fello". came
on board. but there was little chance for trade in anything but arm, .
which
we
cUd
not haYe . We landed and went into
the
city , but tl'.ere 1Ill1
11
ttle of intereet to ue.
In
Caet, walking for pleature 'IIa8 not IWCh
pllflllure • • s you were likely at all¥ moment to come acroe. a
headlen
trunk ,
It111
_:
rill .
l'ighUng "88 going on all
the
time and there wal
little prospect fo r trade.
Our
run f rom 'IoohoQ " .. through
II.
very pretty part of the
River, which had narrowed conelderably, 80 that we paued a c1ty called
Kililienn very near . Here and on all the river bankl were collectedenormou.l
cro"dl of people, lUUiou.l to eee the new devi l ah1p. They bad before
seen the &hips of Lord Elgin'e expedit1on, but he r e WIlS eomethill,!/; entire–
ly
different . The Fi re-Dart , Yith her laIge "hite hull , 10fty"alk1ng
beal'll and speed,
w...
a new objeot of wonder, The
b~1
were Uned for
m11es .
The current wae very etroll,!/; and retardea. us greatlr - that ana.
tl:.e necnaHy of fse111'1&" every irx:h of our w,¥ , but there wae no thins
tlreaome about it, as there 1I'al Il con8tllnt feeling of noveltr . 'Ie
were in wllten which haa. D6ver before been trllvened br Il fore i gn keel,
except Lord Elgin'6 1.=edl o.tely 'before
UI,
ana. there Will Just a slight seniti
of danger frOlil the Rebelt IlIld from the uncertainty of the ne.vlge.t1on .
'3
,.
rr
u
~
!
\
If'
11
.
i s
e l\
0
1
I'i
11
cky
,
i eu naIll l
L s 8
rw!
g l
Ic -
il l',.
.
.6
"
c
..
h
r ••
n~er
,
a
we
g
ng
Bc e
e s
ll Il
'
l
,
.
1
I' 8
e B e
u
• •
"
di
v 'I M
e
here'llii.I
lit l
s
.
e
fac
l t'
"
e
lIN
euu . a8
~
u
8
rm
F
wal
1
W l
"
ao
u
a l'
at
. "
hl
'
ll
e
'
li
ss .. H
I1
1
y
s
t
e w s t
.
auxi t
s
'
ll
Yll
h
t
e
shi
s
ti .
"
as s t in,g
i
.
w
:
whi
lo t walkill
m e
'
lias
II.
.
c
'
IIOIl
en.ts
li
t
ll e
e
s
.
ng
d
y
d
enit
seUng
.
c
t
.
q.
.
as 1
i a
.
"
as e.
llta
y W
.
er 1 aters
d ne
a ers
y a
l ,
4:
s
~dlatel
us d
.
ae j
le
s om
l U
e
lUlvip i
