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I was now fully engaged in arranging and repacking 

 the collections, paying my men off finally, and giving 

 them the usual cumshaw, which, of course, varied in 

 amount according to the time they had been with me, 

 and the way in which they had behaved. 



I was lucky enough to find an immediate purchaser 

 for my boat, which I had feared might wait a long time 

 on my hands, such articles not being in frequent demand 

 at Icliang. She had been well looked after, however, 

 and in spite of her four journeys up and down the river 

 was as good as new. 



Waiting here for the river to fall, in order to get to 

 Chung-king, were Mr. Hobson, Commissioner of Customs, 

 with his staff, and Mr. Fulford, Consul, who were going- 

 there to open the port to European trade. No steamers 

 belonging to foreigners were, however, to be allowed 

 to proceed above this port. 



Wlien all my work was completed, I took a passage 

 in the steamer Kiang-yung, which carried me to Shanghai 

 without the nuisance of changing boats at Hankow. 

 On my arrival I had a bad attack of fever, which I felt 

 more severely through being in a weak state of health,. 

 I having for the last year, nearly, subsisted almost en- 

 tirely upon the poor food consumed by the lower classes 

 of Chinese. 



While here, Mr. T. Wood, whom I had previously met 



