"  The  scenery  was  very  beautiful,"  Mr.  Taylor  wrote  to  his  mother,
"  Waterfalls  abound,  one  of  which  leaps  seven  hundred  feet  in  a  sheer
descent,  and  another  that  we  saw  about  six  hundred.  .  .  .  The  views
above,  below,  and  around  were  wonderful  .  .  .  something  to  be
remembered  for  a  lifetime."

Great  was  the  contrast  on  their  return  to  Ning-po  with
the  heat  and  manifold  distresses  of  that  summer.  Following
upon  the  floods  of  the  previous  year  came  an  unusually  hot
season,  and  at  the  same  time  a  wave  of  anti-foreign  feeling
swept  over  the  city,  due  to  daring  outrages  perpetrated  in
connection  with  the  coohe-traffic,  which  was  "  rapidly
assuming  all  the  features  of  the  African  slave-trade."
Hitherto  its  ravages  had  been  confined  to  the  Southern
provinces,  but  now  men  and  lads  were  disappearing  from
this  region  also,  carried  off  on  foreign  ships  to  the  plantations

1  The  Yen.  Arthur  E.  Moule,  B.D.,  Archdeacon  in  Mid-China  and
C.M.S.  Missionary  at  Ning-po.  Quoted  from  The  Story  of  the  Cheh-kiang
Mission,  p.  76.
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of  Cuba  and  South  America,  most  of  them  never  to  return.
