Six Months with the Chinese Expedition: Or, Leaves from a Soldier's Note-bookJ. Murray, 1841 - 155 Seiten |
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Admiral amongst appeared arrival attack barbarians Benares Bengal Bengal volunteers boats Bombay British subjects Canton Canton river Captain Elliot CAPTURE cargoes carried China chop coast command COMMISSIONER LIN court despatched dollars drug empire endeavour England entered entrance expedition fire flag-ship fleet Fokien force Gordon Bremer governor guns hands HARBOUR OF CHUSAN hill hitherto honour hostile houses India inhabitants interpreter island of Chusan jos-house jungle junks Kea'shen labour land Lord Auckland Macao Madras artillery Majesty's government Malwa mandarins ment merchants miles military morning Mount Ophir mouth natives Ningpo obtain officer opium opium-trade party Patna Peiho Pekin plenipotentiary position possession present preters prisoners provinces received river rupees seemed seen servants ships shore Singapore soldiers soon squadron steamer Sycee Sycee silver taken teas temple Tinghai tion town trade troops vessels wall WALL OF CHINA Wellesley whilst whogs whole Yeang-se-Keang
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Seite 38 - I had the curiosity to visit, was the opium-smoker in his heaven; and certainly it is a most fearful sight, although perhaps not so degrading to the eye as the drunkard from spirits, lowered to the level of the brute and wallowing in his filth. The...
Seite 39 - One of the streets in the centre of the town is wholly devoted to the shops for the sale of this poison ; and here in the evening may be seen, after the labours of the day are over, crowds of Chinese, who seek these places to satisfy their depraved appetites. The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and generally a side-room is devoted to gambling. The pipe is a reed of about an inch in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl for the...
Seite 55 - At eight o'clock, the signal was hoisted to prepare for action : still, however, time was given by the commodore, hoping to the last they would repent, and it was not until two o'clock that the troops left the transports in the boats of the squadron, and took up their position in two lines in rear of the men-of-war, to land under cover of the fire. At half-past two the Wellesley fired a gun at the martello tower : this was immediately returned by the whole line of junks, and the guns on the causeway...
Seite 40 - In the houses devoted to their ruin, these infatuated people may be seen at nine o'clock in the evening in all the different stages: some entering, half distracted, to feed the craving appetite they had been obliged to subdue during the day ; others laughing and talking wildly under the effects of a first pipe; whilst the couches around are filled with their different occupants, who lie languid, with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for passing...
Seite 40 - ... smile upon their countenance, too much under the influence of the drug to care for passing events, and fast merging to the wished-for consummation. The last scene in this tragic play is generally a room in the rear of the building, a species of dead-house, where lie stretched those who have passed into the state of insensibility the opiumsmoker madly seeks — an emblem of the long sleep to which he is blindly hurrying."* 360.
Seite 40 - A few days of this fearful luxury, when taken to excess, will give a pallid and haggard look to the face ; and a few months, or even weeks, will change the strong and healthy man into little better than an idiot skeleton. The pain they suffer when deprived of the drug, after long habit, no language can explain ; and it is only when, to a certain degree, under its influence, that their faculties are alive. In the houses devoted to their ruin, these infatuated people may be seen, at nine o'clock in...
Seite 65 - The interior of some of the houses were found beautifully furnished and carved ; one that is now inhabited by the governor, and believed to have been the property of a literary character was, when first opened, the wonder and admiration of all. The different apartments open round the centre court, which is neatly tiled ; the doors, window-frames, and pillars that support the pent-roof, are carved in the most chaste and delicate style, and the interior of the ceiling and wainscot are lined with fret-work,...
Seite 54 - Flowery Land." The dawn of day brought much the same spectacle as the preceding, excepting that a few guns were mounted on the Jos-house hill, and the mandarins were seen actively employed running about along the wharf. Soon afterwards they were remarked to take their different stands with the troops, one among them with his party in the martello tower being particularly conspicuous. The war-junks were drawn up and crowded with men. The British men-of-war were lying in line with their larboard broadsides...
Seite 39 - ... in India. On a beginner, one or two pipes will have an effect, but an old stager will continue smoking for hours.
Seite 111 - ... marshalled into the presence of Kea'shen ; he rose at our entrance, and received the mission with great courtesy and civility. Indeed, the manners of these high mandarins would have done honour to any courtier in the most polished court in Europe. He begged us to remain covered, and was introduced to each person separately, and expressed his hopes that the supplies had been received by the squadron. He made some excuse for our reception in the tents, but intimated that Tarkou was some distance...