I do not know whether it was because all the people were saying that the Liang Kiang had been transferred to the British. This rumour gained ready credence through te visit of Mr. Webster of the Punjab Infantry who was making a map of Honan and Nortit Anhui. Some of the natives kindly told those who didn't know that he was surveying. a railway route, Mr. Webster is, I believe, the first non-missionary foreigner to visit this city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.