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serious
on the Colony
injury appeared open to still graver objection. I was morcover
ing to
informed that according all previous experience (as for instance in the case
of the jinrickoha-men before referred to) the resistance
in the
would give way course of a few days.
8.
This anticipation,
however, proved incorrect. The cargo-boats had been
from
the
first.
withdrawn
into
into Chinese waters, and on
the 27th April (the business of the port having in the meantime been brought almost to a standstill), they
still remained there, when the boatmen addressed me
a
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petition, praying for the cancellation of the requlation
as
to photographs. It similar
petition
was also, received
from a number of Chinese merchante who were suffering
from the strike.
9.
SHOES