The day after this, just xs I was ascending the Muhpansan Pass I met the Editor of the New York ' Observer," making his way from Nanking to Huai-yuan on a frisky rule. This is the way for an Editor to get some real experience as to how missionaries travel in the interior. He, however, would be freed from one serious annoyance. He would be blissfully ignorant of whether the people were cursing or praising him. It was encouraging us we cro-sed the Yangtze at Nanking to see the fla.s of the surveyors waving on its northern ban!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.