This business having been completed to the satisfaction of the bandits, they left the vessel after having robbed the passengers and Grave Risk to Foreigners The I-Ping reached Wanhsien safely, and eventually arrived at Chongking without further incident, But from this incident ind many others reported during the past two lor three weeks it is evident that foreigners proceeding to points above Ichang, or even to the latter place, are at present exposed to grave personal risks, fully justify attitude taken up by the British Consular authorities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.