Though the Tsungli Yamen is said to have prohibited the export of coffins from Nemchwang, its orders seem to be steansely inefficient, as the work of landing coffins on this side is going on without the least attempt at secrecy. The junkmen evidently see no reason to be afraid; one junk, about ten days since, landed nineteen coffins at this place, and only two days ago a foreigner counted twenty-one coffins lying on the beach ready for transportation inland. Being seldom at the harbour, we do not know how many more may have been brought over. Junks are reported to be landing coffins at other points between this an Chefoo, und coffins being seen carried inland feom these places afford strong_ presumption bat the report is true. If burial took place immediately on landing, or if the coffin was kept somewhere else than on the premises where the family reside, the danger of infection would be much' diminished. Neither of the above though are the conditions which usually prevail in case of the death of older members of the family, unless " kind "Providence intervenes, "we may expect to see the plague any time next summer in Shantung.
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