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.

1909, John M. Moore, Etchings of the East, Nashville, Tenn.; Dallas, Texas: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, Smith & Lamar, agents, →OCLC, →OL, page 103

By way of precaution Hsi Pao-t’ien was sent to the prefectures of Fukien and Kienchang (Kiangsi), and Pao Ch’ao in the direction of Huchow, directly across the lake from Soochow, while the emperor was asked to command the provinces of Fukien, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Hupeh, and Hunan to devise measures for their own defence.

1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale History Press, →OCLC, page 284