The gale began on the 11th and continued for several days with increasing strength, Siccawei recording @ minimum of 10.4 degrees, but the Shanghai Waterworks thermometer went as low as eight degrees. Drift ice passed down the river day after day and the various buoys in the lower" Yangtze were 6 caked over that the weight sank them almost to surface level. fowl were in a semi-dazed condition and teal were picked up by hand from the water off the Public Gardens. On the Pootung Point a Larrier of ice was formed eight fect high, Steamers, coming up the har-Dour from the' north, looked as if they had just come from the! Article regions with ice to the tops. of their masts.
The blizzard was felt all the way down the coast, and at Hoihow the inhabitants fad their first experience of ice. Even at Singapore the temperature dropped about five degrees, The whole coast as far south as Canton had a snow fall and the whole country around Foochow and the water a month after the rain had ceased. The farming population) were all congregated on the high embankments living in very primitive fashion in shelters made of any material which came to hand. No' particular inconvenience" oceurred in Shanghai except to racing) men, for the mud course bear impassable, and after a pony had been bogged near the Loongfei gate} ino ponies were seen on the course for the last three weeks of the downfall, owners sending their Ponies to the Siccawei Road, parts of which had to be negotiated at a walk.
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