The Land of the Boxers: Or, China Under the AlliesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 307 páginas |
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... houses - The Empress's temples - The marble junk - A marble bridge - Lunch in a monarch's prison - The hill over the lake- A lovely view - The Hall of Ten Thousand Ages - Vandalism- Shattered Buddhas - The Bronze Pagoda - The island ...
... houses - The Empress's temples - The marble junk - A marble bridge - Lunch in a monarch's prison - The hill over the lake- A lovely view - The Hall of Ten Thousand Ages - Vandalism- Shattered Buddhas - The Bronze Pagoda - The island ...
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... houses - Friendly scene between Japanese soldiers and our sepoys - The floods subside -The return - Smuggling arms - Lieutenant Stirling , D.S.O. pages 133-168 CHAPTER VIII OUR STRONGHOLD IN THE FAR EAST HONG KONG AND THE KOWLOON ...
... houses - Friendly scene between Japanese soldiers and our sepoys - The floods subside -The return - Smuggling arms - Lieutenant Stirling , D.S.O. pages 133-168 CHAPTER VIII OUR STRONGHOLD IN THE FAR EAST HONG KONG AND THE KOWLOON ...
Página xiii
... - An arrest - Insolent treatment of British subjects- Redress - An arrest in Japan - Chinese gambling - houses - Fan- tan - The sights of Macao pages 231-255 • CHAPTER XI A GLIMPSE OF CANTON Hostility of Canton to CONTENTS xiii.
... - An arrest - Insolent treatment of British subjects- Redress - An arrest in Japan - Chinese gambling - houses - Fan- tan - The sights of Macao pages 231-255 • CHAPTER XI A GLIMPSE OF CANTON Hostility of Canton to CONTENTS xiii.
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... houses nestled down close to the water's edge , while above them the island rose in gentle slope to a conical peak . Our anchor plunged sullenly into the sea , and we lay at rest in England's most Eastern harbour . Considerations of ...
... houses nestled down close to the water's edge , while above them the island rose in gentle slope to a conical peak . Our anchor plunged sullenly into the sea , and we lay at rest in England's most Eastern harbour . Considerations of ...
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... houses at either end enclosed the Club . Farther on , a little above the harbour , stone steps through walled terraces led up to the Headquarter Office , once the Yamen— a long row of single - storied houses with a quaint gateway , on ...
... houses at either end enclosed the Club . Farther on , a little above the harbour , stone steps through walled terraces led up to the Headquarter Office , once the Yamen— a long row of single - storied houses with a quaint gateway , on ...
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Allies ANDREW LANG army Bombay British officers buildings Canton Chinaman Chinese city Chinese houses close cloth CO.'S STANDARD colony Coloured Plates coolies crowded Crown 8vo Edition England English Essays European fighting fire force foreign French Frontispiece Froude's J. A. garrison gate German Gifford Lectures gilt edges gilt top ground guard guns Gurkhas Haggard's H. R. half-bound harbour hills HISTORY Hong Kong Illus Illustrations Imperial Indian Infantry island Japanese Kowloon land Legation LL.D LONGMANS & CO.'S M.A. Crown 8vo Macao mainland mandarins Maps Max Müller MESSRS miles nation North China palace passed pavilion Pekin Photogravure Portraits Portuguese Punjaub quarters railway regiment rickshas rifles river road Royal Royal Welch Fusiliers Russian Samchun sampans sepoys Shanhaikwan side Sikh soldiers station steamers stood streets Taku temple Text Tientsin tions towers town trations troops villages vols wall Wei-hai-wei
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