Lin's American informants soon warned him that the British warships had gone north so as to threaten the island of Chou-shan. The British authorities in London had been enlightened as to the strategic potentialities of Chou-shan - an island fifty-one miles around, which grew tea and made rice wine, and was placed off the mouth of China's largest river, the Yangtze.

Students studied French and quoc ngu. Most (not all) agreed that Chinese characters no longer sufficed.

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Amuta and the twelve-year-old have produced calabashes of palm wine and are busy pouring out healthy drams into the cupped hands of black and white alike.