Show mis im cuin mr writes from he celestial empire through the kindness of mr robert wilson vie are able to give the following letter irom mr lg wilt doubtless proe very interesting yet TAIO SHAH SILVER CHINA march 1889 again I 1 write you to let you know that ve have at lart arrived at our destination we got here on the ath ingling three months and five dava on the trip from Tin tsin we came eighty miles on the only railroad in china we alieu took carts again through a mountain country for about 0 miles these mines do not amount to inoch the country is poor and so are the people we are now two hundred miles north of eliy great wall I 1 ast of us lies alie of mansura and cores on the north lies siberia and oa the west turkestan Turk estan and thabet we are in the province of moncelia Mon colia in latitude 47 degress the kwintera are cold and dry not much enow falls the keople here are good natured na lured altogether different from alio canton chinese ho i eme to america they also talk a different language they talk eliat is known as the mandarin they are not really hut are or tartars Tar tars itice is hardly known here millet aeed is the staple article of food al congh some wheat is raised irish potatoes turnips onions cabbage and lucli aae coro inon they raise a black bean chith aliey fead to stock they have some horses but bey are very small as are alie cattle small black libys cheep and goats are quite plentiful alie people in goat skin with the bair on in winter aej wear cotton cloth in summer mr W N vice consul tsin is this company and does all the for the men liere at the and aa be will not do any business with more than one party in the united states tor any one of us he recommended me to do all of auy business with the academe I 1 am not very favorably impressed with china nor is mr our trip through some sixteen hundred miles of the interior of china was not very pleasant but I 1 sawa great many interesting things give my love to my children and my best v bishea to all my friends jons mcquaid io he does nt yet know of his boys untimely death as his letter to the children accompanying the above fully evince |