. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. W OF COPPER MINING BARBARITIES TO CHILDREN THE GODS OF CHOWTUNG — CHINESE SINGING — GAMBLING — DEATH TO THE UNFILIAL—SHRINE OF THE MAGIC PEN—THE TEMPLE OF HELL—INFANTICIDE. HREE li north of the city of Chow-tung, while walking on the good,hard earth of the Great NorthRoad, I was met by Mr. SamuelPollard, of the Bible ChristianMission, who gave me a realCornish welcome, and invited meto stop with him for any time upto two years, when he is entitledto a visit home. Mr. Pollard is oneof
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. W OF COPPER MINING BARBARITIES TO CHILDREN THE GODS OF CHOWTUNG — CHINESE SINGING — GAMBLING — DEATH TO THE UNFILIAL—SHRINE OF THE MAGIC PEN—THE TEMPLE OF HELL—INFANTICIDE. HREE li north of the city of Chow-tung, while walking on the good,hard earth of the Great NorthRoad, I was met by Mr. SamuelPollard, of the Bible ChristianMission, who gave me a realCornish welcome, and invited meto stop with him for any time upto two years, when he is entitledto a visit home. Mr. Pollard is oneof the best foreign speakers of theChinese language in Western China, and, as a missionary,is respected and admired by foreigners and has been very successful in his chosen work, andspeaks to crowded houses. Merchants, literary men,and coolies of this, the second most important, city ofthe Province of Yunnan, come to hear him. It was invery pleasant company that I entered the ? city, onthe way to which we passed the Northern Compoundof the French Catholic Mission about two li outside. Pagoda. 168 SECOND-HAND COFFINS the city wall. There are four gates, and just beforereaching the North Gate, which I entered, we stoppedto look at the Drill Ground. This place was once thescene of an amusing incident. Two Japanese engineerswere employed by the Chinese officials to work thecopper mines in the neighbourhood. The officialswished to test their knowledge of hidden mineralwealth, to do which they secretly dug a hole bythe Drill Ground, and deposited a thousand roundcopper cash. Later on the officials took the engineersout on a tour of inspection, and coming as if by acci-dent to this spot, they asked if this was a good placefor copper. The engineers answered No. Where-upon the sceptical Mandarins ordered their servantsto dig up the cash, and produced it as proof of theignorance of the experts. This fact being established,the engineers were dismissed. Between the Dril
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