Gazing on this scone, it would be difficult to" believe that' less than one month ago the harbour presented @ picture of shipping activity difficult to be Beaten. Yet so it was, 98 the Customs records will show. Over sxty steam-rs in port, twenty-eight of which were moored to the south bank of the Liao river. Hus tle, bustle, with a "yo heave" here and a yo heave" there, such a feverish energy to clear away before the ice should come down, And now here we are, frozen in, not a ship within miles of us, left to merey of @ cold, cold wind, freezing the very marrow in our boner, and yet you Shanghai-ites dare to growl.
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