. An American engineer in China . e suggestion of the local officials,we went armed. I asked the Chinese dignitaries why we hadfailed to experience the troubles that they had allfeared so keenly before starting. The answerswere threefold: we had shown no fear, and con-sequently the people feared us; we neither mo-lested nor interfered with anyone, therefore thepeople respected us ; and we paid regular pricesfor our purchases, and would not permit ourattendants to steal, therefore the people likedus. There seemed to me to be another reason,the good-will of the officials. I am confident thatthe
. An American engineer in China . e suggestion of the local officials,we went armed. I asked the Chinese dignitaries why we hadfailed to experience the troubles that they had allfeared so keenly before starting. The answerswere threefold: we had shown no fear, and con-sequently the people feared us; we neither mo-lested nor interfered with anyone, therefore thepeople respected us ; and we paid regular pricesfor our purchases, and would not permit ourattendants to steal, therefore the people likedus. There seemed to me to be another reason,the good-will of the officials. I am confident thatthe Government can, when it wants to do so, con-trol the people, and is quite competent to bringabout any desired reform. The trouble is thatthe existing clique realizes that with railwaysand other innovations its powers are at an practical result of our trip is that mission-aries have since penetrated without trouble intoHu-nan, a thing impossible before, and the prov-ince can now be considered as open as the Mr. Parsons Mr. Rich Chinese Skipper Under Two Flags Chapter III: Hu-nan, the Closed Province 123 Wherever we went we had the pleasure and hon-or of carrying with us the American flag, the firstforeign flag to be seen in this portion of China,and alongside of it, in compliment to the countrywe were visiting, we flew the Imperial Dragon. The scientific results were entirely addition to determining the general locationof the railway, we established the longitude andlatitude of the various cities, discovering, as wasto be expected, differences in their locations asusually platted. We noted the magnetic varia-tion of the needle, locating the line of no variationwhere it crossed our path ; we established thelines of drainage, both north and south of theNan-ling Mountains, correcting many errors; but,above all, we discovered the true pass across therange connecting the head-waters of the Yu-tanwith those of the Wu-shui, to which the staff ga
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