canton-bound

Updated: September 29, 2024

The public decapitation of a handful of these murderers appeared to place no check on the outlawry. Once a Canton-bound steamer, carrying the mails and a considerable amount of specie, had her progress obstructed by two junks that wilfully forced her into shoal water.

Frederic Courtland Penfield - East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan