An Aide-de-camp's Recollections of Service in China: A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas, 第 1 卷Saunders and Otley, 1844 |
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Admiral amongst ANAMBAS anchor appeared arrived attack bamboo barbarians batteries Belle-Isle boats building called Cape captain ceeded China Chinese Ching-kiang-foo Chusan CHUSAN ARCHIPELAGO consequence considerable considered constantly Cornwallis crew curious destruction discovered distance doubt emperor empire endeavours European fancy fear feet fire Fooshan fortunately gigantic gods Guano guns hands handsome harbour Helen's Bay Hong-Kong honour immense imperial inhabitants joss-house junks Kinshan land Lord Saltoun Malay mandarins miles Ming dynasty morning Nankin neighbouring Ning-Po officers Otley ourselves pagoda party passed Pekin Phlegethon porcelain portion possess present proceeded procured received render river sail scarcely seemed Shang-hai shew ships shore siderable sight Sincapore Sir Hugh Gough soldiers soon speedily spot steamers Straits Straits of Sunda Tartar temple TEMPLE OF CONFUCIUS tide tion tower town transports troops vessel walls whole wind Woosung Yang-tse-kiang
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第 174 頁 - who died from the effects of the sun; that of the Chinese must have been immense, as, independently of those who fell in action, incredible numbers of the Tartars, in some cases including whole families, unhappily died by their own hands. Their force within the city was supposed to have amounted to between
第 172 頁 - brigade, about the same time ascended the heights assigned to him on the river side, and after discharging some rockets into the city, gallantly pushed forward, under a smart fire of ginjalls and musketry from the walls, and entered that point of the city by escalade, about 10 o'clock. About noon, the arrangements for forcing the west outer gate being completed, it was most effectually blown in, when the
第 285 頁 - be no escape from strangulation! Persist in the vice, and die! renounce it, and live! Tremble, then, at the penalty, and flee the crime! Do not say you have not had timely warning. Let all tremblingly obey. These are the commands.
第 18 頁 - employed in the suppression of the slave trade on the coast of Africa, where
第 279 頁 - property to an amazing amount) not less than eighty millions of Chinese ounces of silver, or about 23,330,000/. sterling value, in bullion and gems, were found in his treasury;
第 179 頁 - and also to our own wishes, it being the constant desire of our chiefs to impress upon all the troops that the war was not directed against the Chinese people, but against their present rulers. Tartar and Chinese soldiers were lying dead in all directions—women,
第 86 頁 - of some rascally fellows, who had been caught in the act of robbery. This is almost the only punishment inflicted upon them, the loss of these appendages, as I have before mentioned. being considered by them the heaviest and weightiest one, short of death itself, that can be inflicted on them. The personal appearance of the Chinese themselves, as well as
第 272 頁 - barber, seeming to be delighted with the honour of shaving one of the illustrious strangers. Previously to his leaving the shop, and while the man's
第 84 頁 - the Plenipotentiary, and were fearful he might have already proceeded northward. Hong-Kong and its adjacent island reminded me forcibly of the Grecian Archipelago, possessing the same rocky appearance, and springing out of the water in the same fantastic shapes. On our near approach to the roadstead, we perceived it to be crowded with shipping—the Blenheim, a magnificent seventy-four, being the most conspicuous object; we
第 80 頁 - expression not unfamiliar now in our own country, but which is derived from the Malay tongue. Government is now making the most strenuous endeavours to put a final stop to a propensity tending to such disastrous results, and which, particularly in such a savage state of society, is too apt to be the case. CHAPTER