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Bishop Lewis Reports Work and Life in Far East China
In a letter from Kuling Central China dated August 13 Bishop Wilson Seeley Lewis describes summer living on a mountain 700 miles west of Shanghai. He notes cool climate and water, explains village life density, wages for field hands and coolies, and Manchu influence. He outlines pirate threats and a robber chief turned police head as example of local governance. He plans to visit churches northward and attend the Pekin conference starting September 30, with return to America around December 20.
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