The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . passage hi my diary: June 11th, 1889. Chefoo. — The province of Shantung isnow the stage of heart-rending distress, caused by the lateinundations of the Yellow River. At the close of last year theslender crops which had survived the floods were weakened byhoar-frost, and have finally been subjected to a season of almostunprecedented drought, which has destroyed everything and reducedthe miserable population to the most abject poverty and the daily arrival at our outports of emaciated outcasts who,having at last evacuated their wr
The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . passage hi my diary: June 11th, 1889. Chefoo. — The province of Shantung isnow the stage of heart-rending distress, caused by the lateinundations of the Yellow River. At the close of last year theslender crops which had survived the floods were weakened byhoar-frost, and have finally been subjected to a season of almostunprecedented drought, which has destroyed everything and reducedthe miserable population to the most abject poverty and the daily arrival at our outports of emaciated outcasts who,having at last evacuated their wretched mud-huts leaving theiroffsprings dead, trudge to the margin of unmitigated distress,and lie down about our very doors to die. In the latter end of January, the people of Chin-chin-fu werefor the first time, since the floods, visited by some missionarieswho discovered that the price of very inferior grain in thatdistrict had risen more than 100 per cent above the averageprice; and the magistrate there would not allow any surplus wheat. -art-,
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