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RETURN TO SHANGHAE. 
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sticks all this time, I had not forgotten the use of knives 
and forks, and I need scarcely say I heartily en- 
joyed my first English dinner. The tea- plants procured 
in Woo-e-shan reached Shanghae in good order, and 
most of them are now flourishing on the slopes of the 
Himalayas. 
