On coming down from Taichow city into the Huavgyen prefecture one seems to breathe a different atmosphere. Tu the former there is comparative quiet and a sense of security, in the latter there is much unrest and the wildest reports are fying about relative to the success of the Boxer movement in the North. A large proportion of the people down here are illitorate, and amonget them such reports take root and spread, and cannot fail to affect, in a more or less serious degree, the feelings with which they regard the foreigner. A very strong feeling of unrest in taking possession of the people, and though nothing important may happen, we shall have to be prepared for eventuality
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.