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Updated: May 13, 2025
I remember that they were daily exercised at the guns, and the promptitude and precision with which they sank the Kowtung such was the unlucky despatch-boat's name was a handsome testimonial to the accuracy of their aim. Lieutenant Hishidi and I had many conversations, chiefly during his watches, and our talk generally turned on the war and nautical matters.
You may live to see a war between England and half the rest of the world, and see England get the best of it. It has happened once or twice before." On another occasion we were talking about Russia, when Hishidi remarked "Russia wants China." "Russia wants everything," said I. "Ah, that is what they say of you," replied he. I once asked him what he thought of the torpedo.
Time he certainly did take, and plenty of it. We were, however, well treated, chiefly through the kindness of the French-speaking officer, Lieutenant Hishidi, with whom I struck up an acquaintance, he being in fact the only one of the gunboat's crew with whom I could converse. He caused a small separate cabin to be extemporized for myself and Lin Wong, and looked to our comfort in other ways.
The Chinese fleet, I believe, confined itself to the modest seclusion of Wei-hai-wei harbour, and was not to be tempted outside. Once I asked Hishidi when they meant to assail Wei-hai-wei and Port Arthur? "Oh," said he, "we are waiting our time; it has not come yet."
He had been in France, and expressed great admiration of French ship-building and French seamanship, and seemed doubtful when I maintained that British seamen would in case of war assert their superiority over the French ones just as decisively now as they ever had done in the past and of naval history in general Hishidi had a good idea.
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