Memorials of R. Harold A. Schofield, M.A., M.B. (Oxon.) (late of China Inland Mission) : first medical missionary to Shan-Si, China / chiefly compiled from his letters and diaries by his brother A.T. Schofield.
- Alfred Taylor Schofield
- Date:
- 1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memorials of R. Harold A. Schofield, M.A., M.B. (Oxon.) (late of China Inland Mission) : first medical missionary to Shan-Si, China / chiefly compiled from his letters and diaries by his brother A.T. Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![being used when required. The other boat was an ordi- nary canoe, manned by a friend of ours from Rochdale. “About noon on Monday, June 28th, we lifted our boats from the steamer which had brought us from Fleetwood on the Saturday, and launching them on the tideway of the Lagan, commenced our intended voyage through Ireland, by way of Lough Neagh, Erne, the Shannon, Killarney, the Blackwater, and Suir. “As the tide was still running up the river, we had easy work of it, and were not long in reaching the spot where some friends had assembled to see us off, yet even in this short distance the Wanderer got nearly half full of water, owing, we supposed, to her having been exposed all Sunday to the hot sun on the steamer’s deck. After sponging out and offering our friends a row, which was kindly but firmly declined, we bade them farewell, and at length felt ourselves fairly started to explore the water-ways of Ireland. “ We soon reached Lisburn, where we landed and strolled through the streets, purchasing bread, milk, potatoes, and chops. “ At Soldierstown we stopped for some time to write letters home, and soon afterwards came to an expansion of the canal into a lake about as large as Grassmere. Soon we had the pleasure of seeing the first lock leading down to Lough Neagh, but were rather disagreeably surprised to learn that no fewer than nine lay between us and the lake. Wearily we lifted the boats on to our shoulders, and as we carried them down soon caught sight of the vast sheet of water glancing through the trees like burnished gold. The natives, who had been watching our proceedings with great interest, gradually assembled, and so many of them helped that at last they had our craft entirely in their own hands. One party of our helpers raced against the other, while the rest, consisting of about one hundred bare-footed men, women, boys, and girls, trotted by the side cheering them on, in a high state of excitement. They were so enthusiastic that it was with the utmost difficulty we could keep pace with them ] we allowed two to ride between the locks, their companions dragging them at a tearing pace by the tow- line at the imminent risk of being upset. “A little further on we caught a glimpse of the lake through](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24850706_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
