'A first glance at the flotilla sampans which immediately swarm ed round the vessel, and all of which Seemed. to have acquired by some means a pretentious flag, to. flaunt Inthe, breeze, was enough to bear out Tehang's reputation as one of the greatest opium markets in Ching, Leaden complexions, somno-Tent "movements and. lack-lustre eyes were the mark of the local Sine. "A freien oftelal eave She third of the. whole. Chinese reportion of opium. -addie epulation, and one would imagine
on the side of moderation, The hid estimate erred, it was undoubtedly Teave little to chance in their hunt for' dmugeled shipments, Two of them, one after the other, were ithe forentast of fen, moored near" the Tehang after having arrived from 'The landing of the airmail from Shanghai struck the first and almost the only note of modernity a small party of tot landed fon the stretch of soft dark sand aid bare by. the receding waters. A sweep ascent between rows. of untidy' matsheds had to be climbed to the Bund, where figures. painted on a wall thank the highest. level Teached by the floods. "From this narrow way, with its characteristic figures of." chow-vend writers, and guards. with sheathed swords' slung on their backs as well as bayoneted rifles balanced at a rious angle on the shoulder, there is a picturesque view down the matshed street to the shipping. the stream, over which towers the lofty hill known as. the Pyramid, though it is actually. more' like a sugarloaf, and resembles the ancient Fayptian' monuments less" than the "regular faced hills beyond Kweichowfu,
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