and the cultivator of the svil is nowhere seen for over twenty miles of country, and such was the haste with which the country-people eft their homes on the first approach of rumour of a Koluo Hui rising in the neighbourhood that they had no time even to carry along their cattle or sell them, and 0 cut off the nose-rings from them and some day when per them back The ripen ary: or rot while the second wheat crop which has already been gathered lies ne-gleeted in the homesteads unliweded by the thresher, To such an excess did the scare amongst the country folk of Ichang prote ture come to, that little children, three days old, were unhesitatingly thrown into the river 40 that the mothers might escape the more easily! Those fleeing frequently looked back ws if they expected to sve hostile lao Hui horsemen on their track. The fugitives generally fled to the country west of the Pao-trah river or into the recesses of the wooded hills, so. that when the soldiers and runners of the various yamens appeared on the scene of the deserted country it seemed as if an enemy had vecupied it, with the exception that there were no burning houses visible.
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