One of the vilest of the Hunan tracts is being widely circulated in this province. Surely it is time the Government put a stop once for all to this filthy literature accompanied as it is with incitement to riot and destruction.
A RACIAL QUESTION, A number of curious mounds are to be found in this district. They re suid to cover the dwellings of an earlier race of people. I lave heard that coins wi strange inscriptions have been found in some of the mounds, but so far have been unable to obtai enn, A large number of the Chinese here claim that their ancestors were Nanking men, They must have intermarried Inrgely with the aborigines for some of the characteristic Chinese features are considerably modified now. Twelve boys were standing around me a few days ago all of them strangers to me. Seven of them lind fine, brown eyes quite us distinct from the bluck colestin! type as mine are. You very rarely find man with really black whiskers. There is 'a marked trace of the sandy in nearly every case.
18th November.
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