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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Icenl17 OD
the
rher, without
heine-
grand, __ "'IH.,. pretty .
In
IQI::l.8
plac•• , 1n
.
nd
Boar Rouch,
for
llutanclI.
it
w.,
IlIOn
then
that.
rue
Reach cot. lU n_ trOll
tl-A
tact
tbat
II .Uri boar W.I
,
hot
there by
the
oftlclr. ot Lord Elgin" expedition .
We p...eri 010.. to
the
oity or
N&ank11l&.
1
n po .....lon of
the
Reb.lt, and. under
.
tap
b1 the
IIDperlalhh.
.
u
the
channel pa..ed within
bO ,.ude ot
te..
batteri•• ,
we
f'lt
t=e
lIllJ[iety.
"
p,dally ••
the Slgin
upediUon
bad
been fired upon II
f_
nUl
before from the ._ place •
.
I.
,
hot 1IIto
tbe
lire-Dart, nth her Ught woodwork, would 11. II .117
dif_
rerent
thln,g
(
rem
II
Ibot Into .. bea.y frigate. 1I'e
.
ere
allo••d to
p." ,
how.vlr, without
tbi,
ma.rk
ot
attention .
Not far abelVe Ngankinc. 1181
the
Little
Orphan
rock, one
ot
the
Il101\ pletiu,relq1,lll obJeeti in
the
_
bole
CO\U'II!I ot
the
river.
It
r1,"
abruptq in
the
middle
ot
the
tt.retllll. parhapl to the
hel,ht
ot
100
or
15() (
eet. and HI l"oclq 11dn are carred into mall tamplu and erotto • •
which
are
inba.C1ted by tM bon•••• t. ran within a few ;rar4. of
it.
On
tM opposite .ide of the riTer,
are
bat.tlec.enta,
and, I
t.hillk ,
tt.e
cit),
of Hllko•• 1l0thiDo; of the city h vhible, hoHT.r . Near thh point h
t.he
.
ntranc. to
the
Poyang
Lak.,
and , quite vi.ible, a.
)'
OU
look into
the laka,
1.
the Great
Orphan
Bock.
Not
~
1
II1lu abOT. till, h
the
city of Ki\lk,anc. one
of
tb
r.e.ll open.d poru . Ie hoped to nnd Mre
'
OI!>II
1.
n<illoC.....
nh to trade ,
and errMt;;ed to
m'ke
a lon.;er ,top
tbn
'
lFe
had
don. at other plac•••
I ...
re
dhappolllted, hO'IFeyer . te .0101 nothl.!l&: durin.,
our ,u,y,
but
I
lett
here
on. of our Chin••• ,taff,
'
lF1th a
boat load of eood•• ,.. allo
made '"l:rt\D.f>ewenta for the purcha.ee of the b••
t
piece of land in the
plac:e, and hired a laree netiTo bu.11dillt,; to
1,1"
a. offic. and eodollD.
'
WItH H
cou.l.d
build.
It
.
a. not
lon,g
.
lnte Kiukeanc
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bun retaken
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