The Land of the Boxers: Or, China Under the AlliesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 307 páginas |
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... island by day - The mainland - On to Taku - Taku at last— The allied fleet - The famous forts - The Peiho River - The Allies at Tong - ku - The British at Hsin - ho - The train to Tientsin - A motley crowd of passengers - The country en ...
... island by day - The mainland - On to Taku - Taku at last— The allied fleet - The famous forts - The Peiho River - The Allies at Tong - ku - The British at Hsin - ho - The train to Tientsin - A motley crowd of passengers - The country en ...
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... island - The distant hills - Summer quarters of the British Legation - The ride back - Tropical rain - Flooded streets - A swim pages 115-132 CHAPTER VII A TRIP TO SHANHAIKWAN A long journey - The junction at Tong - ku - Mud flats - A ...
... island - The distant hills - Summer quarters of the British Legation - The ride back - Tropical rain - Flooded streets - A swim pages 115-132 CHAPTER VII A TRIP TO SHANHAIKWAN A long journey - The junction at Tong - ku - Mud flats - A ...
Página xii
... Island - The Peak - The cable tramway - View from the Peak -The residential quarter - The floating population of Hong Kong - The sampans - Their dangers in the past - The rising suburb of Kowloon - The Hong Kong regiment - The docks ...
... Island - The Peak - The cable tramway - View from the Peak -The residential quarter - The floating population of Hong Kong - The sampans - Their dangers in the past - The rising suburb of Kowloon - The Hong Kong regiment - The docks ...
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... island of Wei - hai - wei rose dark and On sombre under a glorious moon . In the glistening water lay the dim shapes of several warships , their black hulls pierced with gleaming portholes . their decks , bright with electric lamps ...
... island of Wei - hai - wei rose dark and On sombre under a glorious moon . In the glistening water lay the dim shapes of several warships , their black hulls pierced with gleaming portholes . their decks , bright with electric lamps ...
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... 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 quarantine prevented us from going ashore , and we were forced to wait ...
... 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 quarantine prevented us from going ashore , and we were forced to wait ...
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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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