Early in the morning, the China Merchants' steamship Haeshin, with a large crowd of Chinese officials on board, proceeded to Woosung to meet the Prince. At eleven o'clock the Haeshin returned up the river, flying the Chinese j flag and gaily dressed with bunting, and came up alongside the Kinleeyuen wharves. At this place preparations had been made to give the Prince a fitting reception. Flags were flying, Chinese soldiers lined [the approach to' the wharves, and a Chinese band played unmelodious airs as the big steamship came to an anchorage.
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