We are having an extraordinary season—unique as far as my experience of Szechuan extends—continuous dry, hot weather. This week has been hotter than any during the past summer, and the usually evergreen land of Szechuan ix burnt and parched instead of the rain-giving up-river or easterly winds, we have been oppressed with calms and imperceptible airs from the north-west, dried and heated in the Cen'ral Asian deserts. This is just the weather for Chinese rioters: if it would only reals and the usual heavy autumn rains set in, these would probably make an end of the Boxers.
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has come back with the endorsement "Zines to Wanhien interrupted this afternoon." Is it cloudbursts or Boxers?
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