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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him
over
the
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hip .
He
w&e .,ery much interested , and
,
howed
a
,
good deal of intelligence in
hi,
q1.leBtlonl. Sa,y
what
w.
me.Y , theB. Chine••
are a very intelligent people , and they beat
u..
all to piece. in b r eedill& .
He took
l~ave.
profaning to be mu.ch plealerl with
hi.
reception,
and
not lont; a!'ter
he
made himself very ueeful to U' o I forget
what
1
t
.
sa. but
probably in ref;8.4'd to 11 ,etU8lllent of land. Ie bO'.lght a large piece at
Hanko" . and also one at
l!an¥ang.
The
firat proved profitable,
the
la8t IfOrth-
1....
Endicott also
bought land and, 1
think,
,
Ull
hold.
it,
but
I doubt
if
1
t
haa
proved
verJ
profitable. Hanko...
wa.
well 11tuated for Bome kind
of black tea•• tut not for all, and. I
III.l
under
the
i:IIpre.11on
that
t he
port haa proved.- not
II.
failure, but not 80 valuable 88 wal at one
time
hoped . 11'0 aleo Bucceelied in Belling S()I;Ie of
the
gGodl
that ....
h!l.d brought
\\
p .
The
re:;.alnder I determined to leave at
Hanko'll ,
and to ettabUth
C.
O.
'
IIill1e.::. there a.
o~
agent . 1 had 'brought hinl'Up 'IIith
thi.
in view .
A cO'Uple of
~.
after our arrival, the "Governor General' came
in. Dent
&:
Co . ha.d. sent to AlUtral1a for her , in antiCIpation of a (I""''',d
for ,tea;::;.er' in China consequent 'Upon the opening of the river ports .
le bad had till!e to
do
all tbat we '1118hed in
the
Wa;j of tecur11l& our lend,
a:ld testi!\!: the market, and I "a. glad to tee Dfln t. who was an old friend .
'
lie were ten
da,y,
in RankO'll' to{;ether. and I 'lias glad. to lIee him do as well at
I
had
done .
The crowd, that came to lIee the etea:ner "lire .ilnply 1.lIIl'Ien.. . 'lie
were oblig.d to pra.ent their coa1ng on 'board, or we shoulj, have been
1'
II'8Illped. From earl;f in the mornIng until dark there 'II'all a ttead¥ proce"lon
of boat., each boIling half a doun !lien, which paddled off fro:1I the Bhore ,
caI:le to the .tel\;:ler. went round her , and 'bac'" to the .hore . During all the
time 'lie were there thil etr1ng of baat. never Itopped. Illenever we went
on thore, to 888 about
01.
U'
lalld, or
uq
other b\a!ne,. , 'lie .are attended
by tJ::e BtLTlB crowdB, 'but they never interfered "ith us 1n the rlightest
s rted.
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