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Show 1 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN understanding. It would have been most pleasurable an gratifying to me to have made friends with the humbl Chinese and Indo-Chinese in the steerage, but I was wel aware that they would be relu&ant toaccept me, "foreig devil" that I was The next port, I thought, would surely be Haiphong my destination, but my expectations were not to be ful filled. On the third day of our westward journey the shi again anchored and T learned that the fog-hung Chines town I could seein the distance wasancient Hoihow, th port of the prefectural town of Kiungchow, the capita of the island of Hainan. The two settlements are sepa rated by three miles of low hills almost entirely covere with the cylindrical mounds of countless Chinese dead The harbour of Hoihow is an open roadstead, entirel unprote&ed from the northeast monsoons which blo with unrelenting rigour from September to April. Fro the distance at which we were anchored, the low-buil harbour town of grey buildings clustered together suggested adrab stage-setting with a background of smooth barren, rolling hills, such hills as the late Grant Woo took delight in painting. On the island of Hainan ther are Presbyterian missions in the towns of Kiungchow Hoihow, Kachek, and Nodoa, with numerous Roma Catholic missions throughout theisland As the steamer was leaving Hoihow I was surprised t heara few words of English, a most cheering sound. Tw German tradesmen and a Filipino lad had come aboar Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |