It is humbly noted that during July Your officer heard rumors that in the Ch‘ao-chou-Swatow area there was an English barbarian, Su-li-wan,¹ pretending to be in charge of customs and in collusion with local gangsters, squatting there and fraudulently collecting customs. Notice was sent the Kwangtung governor general and governor and the Canton customs superintendent to prohibit this entirely. Now a communication is received from the acting governor general of Kwangtung [sic] Lao Ch‘ung-kuang, regarding the collection of likin for military supplies at Ch‘ao-chou and Swatow, that he has received a report from his deputy Yi En-heng that there is a foreign merchant, Sha-li-yün, who has helped detect smuggling and is quite rigorous.

two or more runes as a single character, called a bind-rune.

She had a refulgent smile.

It told its readers that people all over the country were rushing head over heels toward the El Dorado on the Pacific— that wonderful California, which sets the public mind almost on the highway to insanity.