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degree. 'lie succeeded in la,ylng in a return cargo, the only new
thin<;:
in
which 'IIae a substance called "vegetable wax.· We lIlit Wl1liam6. litUng
on an empty beer casB, rather glUIII, but tolerably cheerful. The wQovernor
General- got a• ..". on her return
voy~e.
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or two a!ter
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I
have
been mere
than
'
oI.5ually particulaT in my account of this
trip. becaua8 1t was the first
that
forllignen hL.d
bean abh
to l!III.ke
into
t<.Le interior of Chlna . In other
cu,.
we had merely Berate"led the
eplder-
mie ,
Te .tarted about 3
P . !.! .
and ran ab01.lt forty miles b,,£or8 we
anchored for the night .
It
was
II.
different thing rwlulng down with
the
etre8lll
thai!.
.
tr'll,;gl1Il8 801:&.1nlt 1t while going
up .
We .era 8Qa111What
de_
l..".,d by
the
boats we 'II'ere towing . one was a cargo boat of OUl"
01
l'n,
and
the
other wa.
that
of our Chines' friend
whom
I mentioned ae
wanting
to
get
hh
family con.,ey,d Bafely dolfn the river . 1I'e
had
al?;:ed
him
fort;y
tub for each member of bis family . He said
be
had jWlt bought ,everal
of the boys for ten taeh each, L'ld
it
was rather hlu'd to have to pay
four time, their cost
tor
their pauage to Shanghai!
1
shall
IIII,Y
little about our paaaage
down,
a, it wae llIUCh the
sa.:.e
aI
tr.e paua,ge
up ••
"
cept that we ran 'll'ith much IlIOre eonfidenea and
ow.de fewer a t ollil . Indeed,
it
would have vean ver;y pleaaant , b\lt for the
fact tent our captain accentuated
hi.
bad qual1tl.e1l and ....de b1:nllelf core
disa,greeable
than
ever . He again ran WI aBhore on the Le.'lilhan Crollllin&.
ql.li te unnecetllaril¥, all
he
had been warned again,t the courlla he In–
lIilted on pureu:1ll8 . 1
had
impreued Upon
him
over and over again the
necellility of
bel~
lIure of
hi.
IIUPPl;y of coal , ae
it
wo~d
be very awk–
wlll"d to be short of it.
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of
rtJ3
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IIIfI
before
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he
had
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he
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