Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-21
THE CAPTAINS STORY

we were on our way from llOnT Kong
to Eoochow, on the, coasting steamer Ma
moass when Captain. NJ N.Y. Jt..tillus
Achatcs" of the voyage, looked at the
gathering clouds to the westward and
remarked: II hope il won't rain before
VIC get into Annoy; we are just thirty
miles away"
''IIow do you know the distance so en-
actly, Captain" IIa l. D.
'Look at that rock, and over beyond
it, you can see through "a rift in the
clouds II little spcck like Il pin point on
the top of that black mountain. The pin
point is tall pagoda on that high cliff,
and the pasodn is rs good signboard
for this town as if that whole black clilT
were painted IN white letters IA mile high
and huff mile widc-A -M-O-Y. /
never sec either the pagoda or the city
that cold chill does not run all over
me"
"Will you tell me why, Captain."
.,".Ccrtanly, but its 4 long story-wcll,
here goes:
Annoy was one of the first treaty ports
i'll China open To foreign commerce, and
for II long time the noted hatred of the
Chimes" for foreigners WAS more intense
there than AT any other port. was then
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