'Then they came to a place near Linguhsien, in Shensi, the military escort having meantime left' the oats, where they wore to be de tained on more serious business, Three horsemen appeared on the bank and began to fire into the boats, Their orders, shouted across the water, were that all boatmen and passengers should come on shore at once. This was dane, and the horsemen, each with his rifle and re~ volver, then gave orders to unload the bouts as they were wanted to transport grain to Paotow for Feng Vu-hsiang's soldiers. The situation looked serious. As the salt had been. shovelled loose into the boats, the necessity of unloading it filled the boatmen-with dismay, Tt tume out, however, to be unnecessary, a after conversation with the horsemen it way discovered that they belonged to the "Hu Lu Tui" the same ang identified with the capture' Dr. King and his party last year, A collection was taken up and about '360 given to the robbers who then, Tet the bouts proceed.
short distance below this they were able to make an official report the incident to the Fu Kua a Mr. Miao, whose helpfulness provid-what was a unique experience to the two missionaries whose expericence dates from $2 years in China, This official, beddes sending off soldiers to hunt for the robbers, and capturing them, gave back ' the money which the missionaries had contributed to the general collection from the boats, Strong winds blowing and storms on the river delayed them still fuzther as did frights of robbers, reported by the country people to be "little further on."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.