Having decided this, it was to pick out a safe anchorage for the night. Lukon, a little town 90 miles only from Yochow itself was selected, and was safely reached about 5 p.m. That night a strong wind brew all the time, and th. passengers on the launch had by means a pleasant time of it. When they started next morning at dawn, the waves were very high: the launch was somewhat aden, for in addition to the missionaries, it took a party of professors and students who were ug to get to the new Lutheran ersity opened on the hills opposite Yiyang. One of the ladies declared a preference to the firing over the storm. Happily, how: ever, it died down, and without any further encounters, they made Yuangkiang city that afternoon, and starting again next morning, got to Yiyang before midday, on the saturday. As the whole party vere obliged to go on board on Wednesday night (because the strict martial law, would haze hindered their getting out of the city in time to catch the boats on Thursday morning) they were over 30 hours on board to do a journey which usually takes under ten.
The strong night wind was repeated a night or two ago. Some 80 or 90 boats were stopped at Tsingkang, unable to get on shore or buy anything. They had run short of all sorts of thin In desperation, they also determined to run the gauntlet, and setting sail after dark, they ran up the river at a specd.little less than a launch, fired at furiously from both banks. They reached Changsha with Jess than 40 casualty ies. six fatal. Where but in China could you find two armies laying seige to twenty miles of river and letting sixty unarmed boats sail through the siege fired at all the way with less than two casualties a mile!
Defeated Troops Leave Changsha Oct. TS.
My monthly visit to a country town, Yunganshih, just over the border of the county of Liuyang.
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