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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n position, and fired a fewshells into the town; the advanced picquets were posted j andthe Chinese fired upon the reconnoitering parties from the walls,wherever they became visible. The evening began to close in ;and the commanding officers were desired to seek covering forthe men, as Brigadier-General Burrell had determined not toattack the town before the following morning. Until ten oclockthat night, the Chinese kept up a dropping fire, under cover ofwhich they afterwards appeared to have deserted the town. During the evening, the civil magistrate and some of his offi-cers were killed by our shells; and the Governor drowned him-self in a tank, when accused of cowardice by his people. On board the Admirals junk, to which we had borne thesummons, were found five wounded men, who had been unable tomake their escape with their comrades: the decks were coveredwith clotted blood, and the Admirals papers, bowls, and chop-sticks, were still in his cabin, where he had taken his last meal :
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THE CAPTURE OF CHUZAN. 377 two of the men were dead, and upon two of the others somejiaedical men of the fleet had already performed amputation : butthe fifth, a young Mandarin who had accompanied the Admiralin the visit to the Wellcsley, was writhing in agony; and seeingthe operation that the doctors had performed, he pointed to hisshattered limbs, and clasping his hands, implored them by signsto do something for his relief; but it was too desperate a case,and past all human remedy, so that in a few hours he breathedhis last. This was tlie young man who had caused more inte-rest on board the flag-ship than any of the rest, from thecuiiosity and frankness that he showed about every thing Cocknies of London, Muscadins of Paris,Just ponder what a glorious pastime war is. And all this perpetrated under the plea of humanity ! To avoidbloodshed, we are not to attack Canton, where we had been at-tacked, and more than once; so our soldiers are ordered toChuzan, to carry death and desolation

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