This woak we have soon what we have never seen here before, viz, a foreign tramp. He was German-born, but had no nationality, no papers, of any kind:
of employment at Hankow he set off on a tramp through Siberia. Not having a cash ho. begs his way from Chinese and foreigners. He presented a truly pitiable condition to both natives and foreigners. After receiving what aid he could got here he moved further north. reached us some time ago through a German gentleman, well informed, to the effect that Fancheng would be visited this year, at high water, by the German river-gunboat Vaterland. If so that will the first steamvessol of any kind visiting these parts, and, therefore, the very novelty of it loads us to wish it to come true.
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