Foochowese

The native of Canton is a foreigner to his brother of Amoy, not only in language, but in disposition : and the Ningpo man is as far removed from a Foochowese as the man of Kent is from the Highlander.

I know Americans of extensive mission experience who can preach as long and as fluent a sermon in Foochowese as in English, yet who can no more make themselves understood anywhere else in China than if they had never crossed the Pacific.