Huchow

— The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has seventy-two missionaries in China, counting the twenty- two wives and the three women who are employed as special teachers in our schools. Of the seventy-two, thirty-one live in Soochow, fifteen in Shanghai, eleven in Huchow, ten in Sungkiang, and five in Changchow. […] Canals connect Huchow with Soochow and also with Sungkiang and Shanghai, and the distance of eighty and one hundred miles can be covered by the launches in eight or ten hours.