. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ///////// M\\\\m tt^Etra -*W(. lxxviii. COFFINS AS GIFTS 233 ago, the frightened people hid their silver and othervaluables in this well. When the troubles were overand the remaining owners came to get their property,suddenly a black cloud arose accompanied by thunderand lightning and a terrific wind. This was sure proofto the superstitious people that the gods were opposedto their receiving the valuables back, so they have leftthem there to this day. The story is rather fishy. Tsu-Hs
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ///////// M\\\\m tt^Etra -*W(. lxxviii. COFFINS AS GIFTS 233 ago, the frightened people hid their silver and othervaluables in this well. When the troubles were overand the remaining owners came to get their property,suddenly a black cloud arose accompanied by thunderand lightning and a terrific wind. This was sure proofto the superstitious people that the gods were opposedto their receiving the valuables back, so they have leftthem there to this day. The story is rather fishy. Tsu-Hsiangfu to Talifu, a distance of five hundredand twenty-five li, was done in four days. The first daywe passed a very long train of donkeys loaded withcoffin boards made of the very heavy iron wood. WhenMr. McCarthy was making his first great journeyfrom Shanghai to Bhamo in eighteen hundred andseventy-seven, he met General Yang, who had putdown the Mohammedan rebellion. The famousgeneral was followed by hundreds of men carryingcoffin boards, which he intended to present tohis various friends. Yang was so full of the coffinsthat, after
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