ting Fu during the present winter has From a journalistic point of view, Pao-proved a most uninteresting place of residence. Its inhabitants," peacefully ignorant of the tribulations of their bre-throu in America, have been anything but riotous in their demeanour, and the many scores of beggars who have frozen or starved death have done so in quietness without stirring by so much as a ripple peace and complacency of the body politic. Even the little rill of travel that, at most seasons, trickles through this head of navigation on the road to Shansi, I since was frozen up, leaving us to an unbroken seclusion.
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