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Grant has also agreed to send a regiment to Shanghae in case there should be trouble there. ... It really looks now as if my absence would not be protracted much beyond the time we used to speak of before I started. ... At the same time, I do not like to be too confident. August 25th. Noon. High and dry at about fifteen miles below Tientsin.
These are Canton, Amoy, Fuh-Choo, Ning-po, and Shanghae: six millions of dollars paid as the value of the opium destroyed by Lin: the system of Co-Hong abolished, and three millions paid for losses by the Hong merchants to British subjects; twelve millions to defray the expenses of the war; and the island of Hong-Kong ceded for ever to the British government.
I found him living in what had been a temple, but what in point of fact makes a very nice cottage, overlooking the bay. As soon as we anchored we began to feel the heat, though not so great as at Shanghae. I found that the Consul had contrived to make a pretty good treaty with Japan, evidently under the influence of the contrecoup of our proceedings in China.
I have heard of two who reached the Gulf of Pecheli after many hardships, where they captured a Chinese fishing boat and put to sea. When almost dead of starvation they were picked up by an English barque and carried to Shanghae, where the foreign merchants supplied them with money to find their way to Paris. A better route than this was by the Amoor, before it was open to Russian navigation.
In returning to Shaughae, Lord Elgin had hoped to find the objects of his mission so far secured, that there would be nothing to prevent, his sailing for England at once: but nearly two more months elapsed before he was able to turn his back on the Celestial Empire. Shanghae. January 17th.
Bruce Results of the Mission. Leaving the Gulf Detention at Shanghae Kowloon Adieu to China Island of Luzon Churches Government Manufactures General Condition Island of Java Buitenzorg Bantong Volcano Soirées Retrospect Ceylon The Mediterranean England Warm Reception Dunfermline Royal Academy Dinner Mansion House Dinner.
They saw their unfortunate shipmates lanced, and decapitated, and themselves, being hotly pursued, escaped in their boat, and landing at a point unobserved, were, whilst pushing their way to the interior, captured and sold as slaves, from which condition they were released by a chief from another part of the island, and put on board the "Antelope," an opium clipper, which brought them to Shanghae.
I sometimes think of how I am to return for a change, by the Pacific, by Siberia. It would be rather a temptation to take this overland route. Thurlow, it appears, has already written to St. Petersburg to ask leave for himself and Crealock to return through Russia. Alas! these are castles in the air, very well to indulge in before we reach Shanghae and the stern realities of the mission.
It was in the spring-time, in the "merrie month of May," when we approached Shanghae; every thing was in bloom. There had been the usual spring rains, and the weather had settled down to that delightful temperature, which has such a cheering effect upon the spirits.
Three P.M. At Hankow; four weeks, almost to a minute, since we left Shanghae. We have brought this ship to a point about 600 miles from the sea, a feat, I should think, unprecedented for a vessel of this size. We have reached the heart of the commerce of China. At first sight, I am disappointed in the magnitude of the place.
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