to the district magistrate to find out whether the Viceroy still wished to purchase, but he could get no reply. The land having been bought the deeds were sent to the district mnngistrate's yarn to be sealed. The magis: trate, who is bitterly anti-foreign, refused to real (hem, but received instructions feom the Taotai telling him he must do so, Months passed and nothing farther was done. In the autumn the missionaries began to press for their deeds and the magistrate acted again and again in utterly lawless and undiplomatic ways. Atone time he seized the land, though the officials had never paid a penny for it; then he threatened and arrested the middleman and openly stated that ne would not seal any Jand for foreigners, while in his correspondence with the Consul on the question he was curt, if not contemptuous, The result of such opposition was to make the missionaries
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