Mr. Ploetz has arrived to help Mr. Tatlock of Daeschner & Ca, He has got up in a small boat in 32 days, but there is no news yet of the American Consul and his mother having even reached halfway Wanhsien, whence they were to telegraph, although they left Ichang on the T7th of October, é.c., 30 days ago. Indeed there seems to be no way for knadzes to get up. The country at the Rapid is very wild and precipitous and though the junkmen are discussing raising a subscription to make a road round, that must take time in Chinese hands. Nor will they of course use the little quantity of dynamite, that would once more make the river passable.
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