We reachd Changsha in two days and half from Hankow, anchoring at night. Tu the capable hands of Osptain Loverie, our 700-ton steamer, drawing five feet of water, ploughed he: way across the Tungting lake and_up the Siang river, without amement's hesitation anywhere. The route has been often enough describe, and need the junks: that is, she passed the native not now be enlarged upon.
No sooner was Jikin stations and paid likin the same as} the anchor Jown than the various ce: they do. On the upward trip, for the of cargo came along in their boats to take sake of convenience, the foreign Customs delivery.
The steamer hax no godowns on supply the likin people with particulars shore, and discharging is thus a somewhat of the cargo, and the steamer agent pays the us business. As soon as it is finished likin charges. But on the return trip the she proceeds to Siangtan, and we meanwhile stramer stops at the Yochou likin station must attend to our own affairs. and enters and clears herself. Coming back, we watched this operation with con-The Trieanial Examination. siderable interest. It was the exact coun-every one knows, once every three ter part of what we had often seen going Fears, on the eighth day of the eighth on on board junks. As soon as the steamer Moon, an examination is held, in the stopped, a likin office deputy came on board Various provincial capitals, of all the with a number of men armed with long] literary B. As in the province. This prodding irons. They never stopped to prod examination foreigners commonly call the anything, but walked up to the door of the triennial, and as there are men present compradore's room, where he was w iting for at it from every city and town of their them with a handful of paper. It appeared province, and as these are all leading men we had on boar two hundred tons of aut- in their districts, Protestant missionaries, irony ore—which being a semi-official since the days when Morrison began it spec did not pay anythiug—and so many/ at Canton, have taken advantage of the Chang Chih-tung's now famous work "Learn," an anti-foot-binding tract, tract on the nature of God, and a translated Sermon on Creation and Redemption. Each packet was encircled by a red band expressing the wish that the rocipient might have the best success in his examinations. In addition to these, there, were 2,000 copies of a special edition of the Diffusion Society's magazines. The whole consignment weighed considerably over a ton, and represented a money value of close clu £100. The Societies interested were the National Bible Society of Scotland, the Central China Religious Tract Society, and the Diffusion Society of Shanghai.
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