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CHAPTER XI. FIRST MISSION TO CHINA—THE YANGTZE KIANG.

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Delays—Subterfuges defeated by Firmness—Revised Tariff—Opium Trade—Up

the Yangtze Kiang—Silver Island—Nankin—Rebel Warfare—The Hen-Barrier

—Unknown Waters—Difficult Navigation—Hankow—The Governor-General

—Return—Taking to the Gunboats—Nganching—Nankin—Retrospect—More

Delays—Troubles at Canton—Return to Hong-Kong—Mission completed

—Homeward Voyage

Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

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