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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from the Rebele , and thiB
wa-
probably
the
r"..,on II'q .e found eo 11ttle
lUlilllo!ltion there . 'rhere ...e Illeo • lot of unru.ly fello... banging about
who needed
but
little encoura,e:ement to become troubl..ame . They were
bravee frOill the Imparl.lilt
~.
I ..
now got
undenrq for the last stage of our Journey. We hoped to
arrive at H"nkow 1n olle
da¥"
run. but
the
current .... too
.
trong.
and
w.
dld
not anchor at Hanko"
till
the
morning of the lI ..
cond~ .
Rere
we
were at
lalt , in
n...
middle of thil great 1Il¥8terloua D:lpire. If not
the
fir"
(
the »nba8111n and Father
Hue
.
ere before Uti) 118 were 80
n
ar
it
11.8
to make
our
,,181
m
almoat
11.
good one , At
tl:.Ul
point t1lere Ilrl> three citi"l , '11'00-
chang
(
the
capital)
Eanye:a&.
and Henko.. .
The
last " ••
the
port opened to
tra~.
but
tr.e
three ciUeI were aubltanUally one .
Hue
eltilll8tes their
pcpulatlon at eight m1111onl , but 1t
1&
evident
tbat
he
haa II'I\ICh oveJ'–
eet1mated
them.
They never could have containell the half, but they were
place. of great trade , and. adlll1rably I1tUBted for
it .
They are at the con–
fluence of the great rher and. the
~,
which ie its nnt tributary .
From Hanko". it i. 600 mile. to the .ea , and here
the
.
tream i. nearly two
mil'" wide.
It
i. ponible that 1 uaKl!erate. but 1 do not think .0 - by
We ".ere ,caewhat punled .hat to do in res:ard to entering the
ship , a. no
arr~elI!8nt.
for carry1ng on trade
had
been mede , but we
tr.ou,ght
it
lIould be better to avoid lIllY .emblance of III di.poeitlon to
avoid the payme:lt of duti"'. if "e could find anyone to take them.
On
inQ.uiry. we learned that the only mandarin.
".
ho
ponened any authority
".
ere at 1I'00chang, on the opposite tide of the Tiver . So ".e ma<if
up
a.
imposing a proceBllion and a. mw::h d1Gplll¥ a ••e oould and Itarted to
call. on thee. When we landed at Wuchang ona 1fQuld ha,.e tho\l,ght that
another planet
had.
emptied itself to provide a cTo".d
fOT
this. '!'hey ".ere
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