The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-27
ON BOARD CLIPPER sH.p Jor WADE. FOR !

HoNG KONG VII POO cHow Jar 4ary 2S, 1856
DpdrtpTe fran Sh0n9ha' ros 10 Hong Kong Threat.
r-,r. ,Ttnta9-N arscoion efne Yanr IS Eianq- Nsg
Sso<s-tgl;e Sattrcs and Ansser lcnguage-Boa.inS
IA The Rtre Mn Cunning and Tall Game-F5oeaolc
Cty--Is 71ade-Foreign Populato's- Icpng Amsfscd
About 7oten-Ednon Stress Crowds, Bustte and Noise
As..ag d High 0G5cial--A Curious Ola Pri.st IN
Cage Beomiss q the Country.
ne are CT. al glad of it, ADD yet Am not, io.
could have spent eays post pleasantly with the
ov!al nsnred generous dspotitiored, priacey, hos l.
table merchants Of hst to he Melbourne Of the China
waters but have talked shapgbas IN my last and this
Is TO tell Of departure and sail down the for
tura ate was 20 get charca visit Foo c. 7,
efpee SLY snen he arrival Of the Gre.a 10 X the
cut OF my Japan expedition, where had full made
ny mind 10 tie Emperor, make mysefs aryr to
the OF opening Sesame 50 seldom there op3
tuIiss Of visiting Foo chow consider myself in uck 10
ge board fne ship the John Wade, in c,r2papy
WITH such pleasant companions as the young az inter-.
pfsiEg owner, at whose invitation her Il his
frien6s--rho bound 70 Cation only stopping look
st por. that Suddenly Las been shown u .Ae tea
drinking world On the 2ls. fair wind made TIE beau
tifa little Boston yacht ay over the water TO jim our
ship below Woosung, which, ia the caso, went down
tie day tesre What is there glsGdening - the
native born VIXEN Thousands Of miles away from his pill
g.m nclae in far distant port than sal in clipper
yacht like the Hscyou which says much for the TASTE
sind enterprise of s owner especially when her
model Of nautical beauty, lrger scale Is passing
up as you going dovn? know the boat it Is the
clipper launched for the Worlds Fair-ths Nightingale
just in from Cantor, bound up to her anchorage Mex.
to beautiful woman, give me an American clipper.
like them both but have not yet seen the former in
the Indian and Asiatc au1 the more delighted to
end fellow .coun.IymAn 10 the stte.-for the sits
proudly the waer as Western nightingale at her
| piano.
| am glad TO get away, for ! do not like tae
appearance Of the weather and the Yang Use. KiAng
Is not the most agreeable navigation in dark night on
turning tide for it is forty miles VIDE at Its mouth,
and chokej up VII mui banks and ugly shoals Our ship
vel / wish could say mush for the internal
Marila crew who manage TO understand their broken
China broken Portuguese, quarter Spanish and little
Engish oIders But in regular gale should feel my
sei about afe with lot OF Bsdoun Arabs In The .ad
Sea We got out safely, thank Cod but when the main
opsa went to threads under the herce nor wester the
tide running perfect sluce, and the strong current
sweeping to the North Saddle u most certainly
locked far from pleasant for the chances most decidedly
against for when you split your best topsa the
a. the while Sss
ship jammed in shcaily channel cannot be handled
uch more hsndily than runaway horse la crowded
sccident Bat plotting board Of such ahearse-resen
bling crs that in which Mr. Ayres got on board 10 no
will satisfy down Faster 10 pursuing such cold and
cheeress occupation a. plotting IN the Yang hiaDg IN
ndwinter.
time get up topsai losced our tix cannon and all
musks. 70 receive pirates but did not have
sion 70 make Of them. In fact We did DO even have
the excl emeu running down Of the fishing jups,
that out Of truck and in three days
paset Sharp Peak and anchored inside Of the Kin Pal
pier ahead OF the Henry Hbeck, that sailed day or
two before
Here I discovered stiIl another feature OF Chinese
scenery and Chinese tives, all different from What
noted In other places in this vast empire which have
The natives speak different language for
black urbsned, bigbreeched, ugiy-lookipg devil
Of pilot although he the tail, and apparently
spoke the same jArgon could only make him
self Understood by motions; and when Chop Dollar
who down with most intelligent Canton man,
well up in the Shanghai dslectwas called down TO In
terpr.t IL most amusing to see him, after failing in
mis- Chinese dialect trying 70 make himself understood IN
Pigeon English. How absurd to hear two Cninsmen OF
different districts udng the broken China jarson ~
| court language
This morning for the FIRST time discovered that was
sailing under the diamond signal q white dismoad in
red fed the tag under which have bssn taught wha.
| little know Of shipping life, and which, had always
supposed much part and parcel OF Boston a. the
line OF psshets which has Hswn II for so iorg time For
than thirty years the diamond sgss has been the
private Gag Of Of the most snterprisng and
Jul o. the Be merchants and for thirty years II has
aostsd rt the mast head Of 81 the most beautiful
shpe (the later models especially such ~ The Flying
Cloud and Stsfordshire) that the world Bu.
i. that II Laf got into the Gaia ocs1ns for has
been waving many year, Under tss rsreLage o. Nr.
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