Gleanings from fifty years in China . posterity for their solace. An ignoble spirit of criticism,a cynical mistrust of motives, a captious enquiry intofigures seems to have led many of the otherwise commend-able citizens of the port to have worried the depositariesof their confidence into something like open dollars squandered on the bund works and noaccounts of the outlay to date submitted ! Thirteendollars subscribed for the clearing of the race course, aUfor the benefit of the promoter, Ningpos now solitaryhorseman ! The Club, a model for other ports to copyand a standi
Gleanings from fifty years in China . posterity for their solace. An ignoble spirit of criticism,a cynical mistrust of motives, a captious enquiry intofigures seems to have led many of the otherwise commend-able citizens of the port to have worried the depositariesof their confidence into something like open dollars squandered on the bund works and noaccounts of the outlay to date submitted ! Thirteendollars subscribed for the clearing of the race course, aUfor the benefit of the promoter, Ningpos now solitaryhorseman ! The Club, a model for other ports to copyand a standing comment on the able and energetic man-ner in which the Honorary Secretary conducts its affairs,torn asunder by the meanness of two of its members, whooffer the alternative of spUt drinks or resignation. But we digress.—We could not help being struck by thesudden transition from the soothing calm of the scenes wehad just left to the active turmoil of a Treaty Port, and wenaturally felt sorrowful at the curtailment of our Buddhist Nuns. TIte feet of one have been let out after binding, her hind is raised in the attitudeof prayer. On the table note small Hooden gon/i and reltiiious boohs. To face p. 192. YACHTING IN THE CHUSAN ARCHIPELAGO 193 city life not being in our programme. Yet we wereinterested and instructed and felt that we should return toShanghai, benefited by a double experience of life. Adinner with the redoubtable Captain Steele, followed by arough night in the Hupeh, and early dawn of thesecond day of October saw us once more at our Ruby returned three days later apparently was, however, afterwards found to be not worthrepairing, and was broken up. As we have said much of the weather in this superficialstory of our cruise, we would add, for the benefit ofdistant readers, that the thermometer ranged from about70° at night to 80° in the shade by day. To nearer readerswe would recommend an imitation of our example, andexpress
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