Shwangdziohu, 18 li from Paofeng, Nov. 38.
"We are with the chief Fan Djibao. He treats us very well. the circumstances, he does the best he can for us. We were treatd rather badly when we were with some other men.' But that belongs to the past now. Hope we be allowed to stay with this lead for the rest of the time we are to be_here."
On December 1 Mr. Lundeen wrote to his wife:
"We are feeling quite well now. Have a little cold, however. The food is a little better than it has been at some other places, but, of course, at that it is none too good. One gets so tired of it. Vikner has sent us milk and coffee, etc. He has also sent clothes.
"We have been here several days now and are treated well by most of the mex, but there are a few who treat us badly. Yet we have been here so long now that we do not suffer so much from it, although it hurts. We have no rights and nothing that we have is safe.
"Yesterday, one fellow in here acted very ugly towards us. We are living in a little bit of a room with one small window to the north all papered up. This man wanted ug to stay in ow room all the time. Then he wanted to trade caps with me. I told him that when I had a straw hat he did not speak of trading, and he got angry. Ever since he has been ugly. Said he was going to put us with the other prisoners, cut our ears off and kill us."
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