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Updated: June 15, 2025
The first one carried the camera to the Taku ferry with many groans, and there engaged a huge Chinaman to take his place, for he thought the load too heavy. It only weighed fifty pounds, and in the Fukien Province where men seldom carry less than eighty pounds and sometimes as much as one hundred and fifty, it would have been considered as only half a burden.
"Well, supposing, for the sake of argument, that I was at Taku, what has that to do with this brutal and illegal arrest?" "You placed the powder under the house where the wounded men lay?" "No." "I have something I want to show you," Ned said, taking a paper from his pocket. "Have you a match?"
Forsooth, a month gone, he had promised a fair south wind so that the tribe might journey to the potlatch at Tonkin, where Taku Jim was giving away the savings of twenty years; and when the day came, lo, a grievous north wind blew, and of the first three canoes to venture forth, one was swamped in the big seas, and two were pounded to pieces on the rocks, and a child was drowned.
"'Why left he one as fair as thee? said Taku, in wonder. "She shook her head. 'I know not, except he loved to look upon strange lands; yet he loved me. "'He is a bad man, said Taku. 'He loved others as well as thee. The girl that fled but now with his picture was wife to him here. He loved her, and she bore him a son.
And as we looked our hearts were filled with pity, for, as he put out his hands to us, he staggered and fell to the ground. "So Taku who is a man of a good heart and I lifted him up and carried him to a bed of soft mats, and as I placed my hand on his bosom to see if he was dead, lo! it was soft as a woman's, and I saw that the stranger was a young girl!
"Many years ago, sixteen I think, a man named Monroe prospected up the Taku and learned from the Indians something of a large lake not far from that river. He crossed over and found it, and spent some time in prospecting, and then recrossed to the sea.
Upon arrival at Taku, considerable difficulties might be encountered, for it is reported that it is practically impossible to procure the extra help needed. Considering a landing at Tsingtau, it should be noted that there has not been provided a sufficient number of disembarking boats.
Nevertheless, he was to remain for the next four years in China, where he was to lay the foundations of extraordinary renown. Though he was too late to take part in the capture of the Taku Forts, he was in time to witness the destruction of the Summer Palace at Peking the act by which Lord Elgin, in the name of European civilisation, took vengeance upon the barbarism of the East.
He was panting, too, and the sound of blows reached the ears of the listening boys. "Get in there!" The words were spoken in English, but not by Hans. "There's that gink who rounded us up back in Taku," exclaimed Jack. "He seems to be winning all the tricks. I wonder how he got hold of Hans?" "I thought Dutchy was back with the submarine," Frank replied.
Add to this the westerly arm of Lake Bennet, and the Takone or Windy Arm of Tagish Lake, each about fifteen miles in length, and the Taku Arm of the latter lake, of unknown length, but probably not less than thirty miles, and we have a stretch of water of upwards of one hundred miles in length, all easily navigable; and, as has been pointed out, easily connected with Taiya Inlet through the White Pass.
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