Lowrie my lest at Huaisusnhsion. travelled from that city to Nenkir.g, 405 li—mall wheelbarrow is four day-. Ov ud slay out I met Messrs. Ford rail ro d. surveyors, proceed ug nero-S Anhui and Kixngsu t th- borders Shuntuny, to begin a survey from there south to meet the party working north from opposite Nanking. When I met them they hed just xiarved from a tewplwhere they had had any thing but " deli ful stay for four day-. In that temp they hind had a mutual strike between elves und their wheel-hsrrows—striking for more "ork—longer distances day, and the men striking for more pay They inid the cooli+ 500 rash per day and had been making from 12 to 16 li per day. I was paying my man 300 exch per day and he was making 75 to 10+ li p-relay. I heard much along the rond of very heavy squeezes the interpreters know how true such reports were, but they were very rte among the people.
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