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You can scarcely con- ceive the crowd of peasants who come into Shanghai when the rebels are in the neighborhood — ^upwards of 15,000 I £ould think, and of every size and age— many strapping fellows who could easily defend themselves come running in with old women and children, . . . The people on the confines are suffering greatly, and are in fact dy- ing of starvation. It is most sad, this state of affairs, and our Gov- ernment really ought to put the rebellion down. Words could not depict th...e horrors these people suffer from the rebels, or describe the utter deserts they have made of this rich province." When the Faithful King's withdrawal gave comparative and temporary peace to the region around Shanghai, Gordon was en- gaged on the survey of the thirty-mile radius around that city, and the conversance he thus gained of the complicated amphibious country was to stand him in valuable stead a little later. "I have been now," he writes, "in every town and village in the thirty-mile radius.
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