Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-08-21
TRIP TO THE Orient
Clarence e. Edwords Touring the
Eastern Countries.
HE IS OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN IN WEEK
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Canton, China, March 90 have
been mobbed. | now fully realize
what the Chinese feel in California
when they have been through a
siege of torment at the hands of
one of our mobs, and | can also
make allowance for these people
| for what they have done to me. 1t
is true that the mobbing was not
serious, and that all the castigation
| got was verbal. Just how close |
came to being stoned | do not
know, but perhaps the fact that
myself and my two compan-
ions carried revolvers in our hands
while we were forcing our way back
to our boat had a restraining in1u-
ence on the bowling ruffians who
crowded around us.
| have been wanting to 60 to one
of the interior villages for some
time, but have been advised against
it by the American consul, and al
so by the Chinese officials, who said
they could not protect me. Just a
few weeks ago party of mission
aries was mobbed in this same vii
lage and barely escaped with their
lives. Perhaps the fact that they
were missionaries had something to
| do with the extreme treatment to
which they were subjected, for the
Chinese have wholesome contempt
| for missionaries.
Despite the warnings OF friends
and officials we induced Chinese
boatman to row us to the village,
and then we walked through the
narrow streets. We had not gone
block before the cry Of "fanquai''
was raised by a boy, and in an in
credibly short time we were in the
midst of a bowling mob. Our
boatman drew out in the stream,
for he was afraid he might come in
| for a share of the trouble. We
walked up the street; the crowd be-
coming denser every minute. Great
brawney Chinese, looking like the
most evil desperadoes, would walk
close up to us, and thrusting their
faces under our hats make wry
faces at us, showing their dislike in
every imaginable manner.
| We continued on our way until
finally we decided that discretion
was the better part of valor and
turned to 60 back to the river.
Then the bowls increased and we
were jostled and pushed by the
more venturesome of our assailants
We kept our tempers remarkably
well, and gave no cause for trouble,
and finally almost fought our way
back to the river. We were afraid
we would not find our boatman
when we got there, but as soon as
he saw the mob returning he knew
we would need him in a hurry, ano
as we reached the landing he was
there ready for us. We got in the
boat and hurriedly rowed from the
shore, followed by a shower OF
stones and the imprecations OF the
mob.
| AS we rowed out toward the OPP
posite shore a lot of natives on tina
side, hearing the noise Of the mob
came down to the bank and begaI
calling us name, and making faces
at us. / took out my sketchlns
apparatus and began making PIC
lures of them, and this was NOR
than they could stand, for the.
seemed to fear that it was SOM
new kind of incatation, and the.
hurried away, giving us a partlnj
shower of sticks and stones.
There was absolutely no reason
for this attack upon us, except tn
general feeling of dislike for foreign
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