New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-19
IN NORTHERN CHINA.
EXPERIENCES OF A MISSIONARY.
From The London Globe

From The London Globe
Mr.. A. s. Annaud, the agent Of the National
recent account of journey to the forbidden city
Of Honan; writes as follows: We arrived at the
a recurrence of what happened here to Mr.. Llley
In 1871. I determined If possible, to cross before pre-
eye on me, and jumped on board ferryboat which
was pushing off as we came up. telling Liu to
come with the carter soon as he could.
In summer the river is said to be nearly seven
miles across Mt this point, but now It was not
Of the sandbanks We had to sail up stream about
six miles before coming abreast OF the station
The large boat M nned By nearly NIFTY men,
with 200 passengers thirty-hve mules. and eight
carts. :, fair wind promised quick passage. but
ing current made progress tediousy slow. 1t
%s has need Of paepce the
men have an odd way OF crossing the river. When
they come opposite their desired haven they cast
out anchor which Is attached to the mast by
short rope, the current carries the boat down
and the bnss i ga ib up abt to h
is reached. The strain on the mast is very great,
m mule Ss n board Rcg 1 e s@s
hut in which we had sheltered an hour before
next morning With considerable difficulty we got
quarters at the East Gate. the innkeeper not
noticing that was foreigner
AN ANCIENT CAPITAL
"Kai-feng-fu the capital of the Empire from
historians be trusted, place of great splendor.
The old city. however. was destroyed by the Man
short OF the glory ascrbed to its predecessor. The
inhabitants have always been strongly anti-foregn.
official to question me abomt my movements. This
gentleman was surprised to find that had crossed
the mandarin who had failed to stop me: He as
sured me that on no account could be allowed to
ranged to send the mandarin copies OF my books.
and said II after reading them he found anything
place Next morning came a permit and an escort
OF eight soldiers with two military mandarins. They
ter held a brother and sold number Of
books The people were naturally curious to see
everywhere treated with cvility; the big man him
self coming out in his chair to see that all was was
many articles OF foreign make as here. In many
Of the principal shops glass cases were arranged
watches. from the cheap Waterbury to the most
costly tmekeeper; combination forks and spoons
remarked to one Of the shopkeepers that IL the
people had no particular liking for foreigners they
seemed TO have high opinion OF their productions
with which remark he and the bystanders heartily
agreed.
THE JEWISH COLONY
Having sold all my books. ! asked the he, soldiers
with little hillock In the centre on which was
ss'$ saa syPs ShsG s%s
The Jews are known here as the ,T'iao-ching-
ali live round the site Of the ancient temple, and
number came about me while ! .gazed on the spot
hometans affirm that he Jews brought here
slaves. and they have always looked down upon
them but there is fairly good proof that the Jews
were in China before he Mahometans. The Jews
themselves believe that they came over during the
Han dynasty. b. c. 200 to 4. ID. 30. In the after
noon one Of the soldiers called with young Jew
named aohui-kuei with whom had a long tain.
He had some Jewish features. They have no place
OF worship. he said. and no wealthy men TO enable
DR. Martin visited th,m In 1865 there were seven
families; now there are only sx-Kao, Chao., Al.
Ii, Shh and Chin. According to my visitor. these
include 100 souls. but the Mahometans put the fig
al less than half. Mr. Kao denied that any OF
them had become Mahometans. but IL he was fair
specimen 1t would not be easy for the Tao-chng
chao to change their religion he could not give me
the faintest idea OF what they believed They seem
10 have entirely given up their old worship. have
lost all knowledge OF he God OF Israel. and have
nothing but the memory OF what they once were
to distinguish them