A number of timber rafts were anchored outside the English compound, waiting until it would be safe to make for Canton. The other night ten men went along these rafts and captored thi leeping quilts, clothing aod even the rice of the lambermen, leaving them bare indeed. Robbers have been fairly these few years, bat some of the Chinese are saying they never suffered 40 mach onder the Manchas as they are doing now. All the foreigners at Bhiachow are atill at their static Thursday Dee. 23.
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