The Archive · 1901

A Dream of Gold

A number of pilgrims are now returning from the shrine of Tsoshi Pusa on the Wu-tang mountains, where it is said the temple pillars. tables, ete. are all made of pure gold. The pilgrims report that he Viceroy Chang has confiscated all this gold and is about to use it to pay the foreign indeninity. At present this is the subject most talked off in the tea and wine shops, and the Viceroy is consequently not very popular with the people who believe the report, Sth November.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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