Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ttle boat and com-menced the journey down the Sungari in a fog. It was well for usthat it was foggy that morning, for in it we were able to slip past aband of Hung-hu-tzu that were lying in wait for me at the mouthof the Huifa Ho. I should have known nothing about this but forthe fact that a few nights before I woke up to find a man in my covering him with my revolver and calling my cook up from thenext tent I made him prisoner. We then found he was armed witha long knife, and on his own confession he informed us th
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ttle boat and com-menced the journey down the Sungari in a fog. It was well for usthat it was foggy that morning, for in it we were able to slip past aband of Hung-hu-tzu that were lying in wait for me at the mouthof the Huifa Ho. I should have known nothing about this but forthe fact that a few nights before I woke up to find a man in my covering him with my revolver and calling my cook up from thenext tent I made him prisoner. We then found he was armed witha long knife, and on his own confession he informed us that he wasafter my rifles so that he could join a band of Hung-hu-tzu acrossthe river. Further inquiries of farmers across the river elicited thefact that this band of robbers were hanging around to hold me upwhenever I should start down the river. As a matter of fact, a fewdays later a missionary and his wife, who were traveling by riverfrom Chaoyangchen to Kirin, were held up by this same band androbbed of all they had. Smithsonian Report, 1919.—Sowerby. Plate I. Chinese River Craft on the Sungari River, Manchuria.
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