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eall for them to have laid that the goodl were 10lt or etoleu liIlriuc: the
bOlDbardment. In fll.Clt. I think all old neidente of China will gin their
evidence in faTor of their honeety.
I
have
alw~e
regretted not having kept
a
journal while in
China.
WUCh
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e takiuc: place from
day
to
da¥
of lntered, and I
am.
obliged to rely entirely on
~
memor,y. It il tolerably faithful ae re_
sarda the main incldents, but
wttully
defioient in detal1
Aa
the
Eng-
lleh, wlth a few
e~eptlone,
had
left Canton, our cowruunlty wal reduced
to the
handful
of which the J/nerican contingent wa. compo lid, and I
do
not think there were more than twenty or thirty ln all. :aut we ..ere
Te17 Jolly" under the clreumstlllOel and met each other frequently" .t
dinner and in our ",alkl. It "'al not often that I could get a1r8¥ from
the office. Wh8ll I did, • cool1. "'•• ull1llly to be seen coming with
'
ur.
Cool1dgy ch1n-ch!n you,' 10 that
it
bec8llle at lalt a Itanding
Joke.
The
Chine Ie were no" bueily engaged In their prep'arationl for
defence and nei.tlmee.
'
rhe1
had
no idea of the capacity of foreign
nation. for .ttack. They
had
never been brought in competition with
them. 'l'beT adhered to their old methode of endeaTori1l6
to
frighten
the
enBllQ'
by
a ditplll,Y of flage. TheT wen hard at work: creatill€ barriere
in the riTer to keep the Engl1sh ehipe trO<ll coming to Canton. Theee
barriere extended &erOIll the river at the potnt "hen it divided
H–
eelt into two branch.. , one carrying the main channel and the other
p.llill8 to Ifbempoa by a channel called by foreigner., 'Lob...creek. M
!
he
two challnlla united 101ler dowrt, f01'lll1ng the hland of Whampo••
All theee preperetione seemed childish.
The Engl1eh wen now tully co"..." tted to a war, and troopi were
begirming to arriT. from Iudi. and E:Il,gl and. Sir Henry Pottinger had
been tlppoint.d Plenipot.nti&:Q' and wae daily expected. llean1lhile trade
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