From Calcutta to Pekin: Being Notes Taken from the Journal of an Officer Between Those Places |
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advance afternoon amongst anchor army artillery August baggage boats Bowlby brigade brought cheroots Chin-tai China Chinese chopsticks Chusan Colonel commissariat coolie corps daylight dinner ditch everything Fane's Horse fight fire forts French front gharry gingal balls Grenada gunboats guns half half-past hawser head-quarters Ho-si-woo Hong-Kong hour hundred Impérieuse Indian joss-house junks King's Dragoon Guards last night look Lord Elgin mandarins marines Mars miles Montauban move mules Napier occupied October Odin Bay officers palace party passed Pearl Peh-tang Peiho Pekin picquet pony Prince Prince Kung Probyn's Punjaubees regiment riding river rode round Second Division sent September ship shore shot side silk Simoon Singapore Sinho Sir Hope Grant Sir John Michel soon sowars Tangkoo Tartar cavalry tents things Tient-sin to-day to-morrow Tong-chow took town troops Victoria Bay village walked Walmer Castle whilst wretched Yesterday morning
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Page 131 - James's, half-a-dozen watch and clockmakers, two or three upholsterers, and that fine fan-shop in Regent Street, all being under the same roof; and then imagine, if you can, what would be your sensations when told that, without breaking the eighth commandment, you might have your run of the place for just ten minutes, and no more.
Page 86 - Ordered horses half an hour before daylight, and went to bed early, so as to have a good rest prior to to-morrow's work. August 22nd, Wednesday.—Now for an account of the " Number one bomb-bomb pigeon," as the Chinese coolie corps, in great glee, called the work of yesterday.