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Information. Introductions, and experience collected at Hong Kong, Canton, and F00 Chow, 393. - Interviews with Mr Stevenson at Shanghai, and Sir Robert Hart at Peking, 394-95. - Stay with British Ambassador, 396. - Counsels of Sir Robert Hart and the Marquis Tseng; Preparations for return to India journey to Tientsin, 399. - No news at Tokio, Hong Kong, or Singapore, 400. - Concentration of efforts at Hyderabad and Bombay, 401.
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