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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t emper to apeak to
him,
but asked
him
how he expected to get to Shangb!t.1.
He
did
not know,
I
made
"
Up
~
mind to get rid
at
him
at the earlie.t op–
portunlt~ .
When we reached Nankin I applied to
the
captain of
the
gun_
boat stationed there for coal enough to take u to Sllan6ha1 and to IIV
great relief
he
acce~d.
It would have beeo Yer,r
aw~ard
to have beeo
atranded t.o hundred mil•• from our port of
deet1ll1lUon .
'
f.,
arrived at SbeD
b,l
on
the
14
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hat
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tteen to accomplhh eOlll1ng
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lip .
and found all well.
On
oux paUa&8 do'm " met CO!!J'lO(iore Stribling. with
the
Dacotah and Saginaw ,
We 10ent on board and hIld a chet of half an hour with
b.1m
and told him
what
.8
tho\l&ht should be dona at
HaIlkow
1
n
the
Intere.t of
the
C1erehanta .
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e found the cOIIInGdore, a. ever, .1111118 to liaten to reason, 1111<1 h8d
the
pleeau:e of learn1ng afterward.
that
our sugges t ions
had
been a t tend-
ed to .
I
have
said little abO"J.t
m;r
fello" passengen, but thil hae
been becauBe we were all one . EverytbiUC bad gone on wi t h perfec t
ba~ny
and a pleasanter trip, or Bet of fellows , could not be found 8-"""hera.
!.
Iercer, Endieott and m,yself wen
the
only panengers eOming down .
When we arrived at Sbanghai "aryone "as &Cog to learn all
about t he river porte . We told thelll our exparienca truly a!ld that bu'i–
!
le.. would b, of Blow growth. They would not believe
-
u.e
and the "hole
community was anxi ous t o 'ee for t hemee l ves . So we laid the l!'lr"' - Oart
on at onee to utu.""ll to Hanko" .
11'",
s!lipped.
nothi~
ourselvee but f ill,d
her
up
with freight at 20 taels a
tOil,
and pa..eIl8er,
at
one hundred
tub a head .
~iI
paid
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m8¥
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~
here t:.a t
thie businen was
kept
up
t hrough the year . Sometimes
it
fell off but
at such t1mes
t he
rebellion came in anei helped u, out. There "as a great
exoaJ.B from the river porte and the adjacent country to Shall6hai , to
escG's the rebels . 1'e got
;!
J
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