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and having refreshed themselves and bid adieu he went to pick up his axe, and lo! the handle had rolled off and the axe was nearly eaten up with rust. he thought it very strange but never-the-less he thought that he would go home, but when he got to his native town it was all in ruins he wondering went to the grave yard and even there he only found some very old and mouldering tomb-stones of his family name. The story then goes on to tell how he proceeded and how the people wondered at his strange language and how the boys laughed at him and how the poor old fellow died or was taken to heaven to dwell amongst the philosophers Mohometans are allowed in any part of China whilst Christians have been denied. the Missionaries in China have written home very long accounts of how many converts they have made. but they tell stories, I do not believe that there is 2 Chinese Christians in the whole of China. Those who attend church are only induced to do so by their allowance of rice and stop their rice they turn back to their old religion these people are called by the sea faring people rice Christinas but by the Missionaries they are called christians. The Bogue or Bocca Tigris is as I have before remarked very well fortified but the fortifications are Chinese built and each one of them except those on the island are built under hills that overlook them, Besides this the walls of the forts are nothing but a curtain without bastions or counter batteries and the guns can only point in one direction and do not protect each other, The Chinese appear to be almost devoid of patriotism at least as regards the present dynasty; for during the english war the chinese for a trifle would assist the english to [?chay?] their guns up the hills But still the Chinese never leave their country but what they still look forward to the time when they expect to return to their homes and to their parents, I have often sat and looked at the chinese boats and boatmen with their wives and children. The Children almost entirely naked and lying fast asleep on the rounded roof of the boat where the least roll would send them into the river but there they lay sleeping as sound and as careless as if in a bed. each little fellow with