This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...can be likened to nothing more truly than a flight of locusts. This one went as it pleased, not along any road, but spread out over a wide swath. When it passed through a city it swarmed over the walls and into the gardens and houses, robbing and despoiling whatever lay in its path, and spreading terror even ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...can be likened to nothing more truly than a flight of locusts. This one went as it pleased, not along any road, but spread out over a wide swath. When it passed through a city it swarmed over the walls and into the gardens and houses, robbing and despoiling whatever lay in its path, and spreading terror even farther than it spread itself. It was an army in blue cotton, with tawdry banners which were as apt to be trailed downward as to be carried properly. The soldiers had guns, but they also carried sun-umbrellas and worked fans as they dog-trotted along. We met them in a singularly lonely country which had been devastated in the Taiping rebellion. In all that desert of ruined and deserted towns and abandoned fields there were few persons but these soldiers, who seemed beyond the control of their officers. Now a "glass boat," such as ours, is always thought to be manned by English hunters and well fortified with firearms, so that it would naturally remain unmolested even by the rag-tag and bobtail element which serves China as her army. But my boy, on being visited by some officers, went out of his way to say that we were peaceable gentlemen, without any firearms, for on that one occasion we were travelling unarmed. We soon discovered what this precious fool had said, and the rapid flight we made, with sail and oars and poles all working at once, was as ignominious as the subsequent retreat of that same army from its Japanese foes. We sped away all night, and I shall always think it was well that we did. At another time we ran away "to live to fight another day." We carried many pounds of English candies, hard as bullets and put up in bottles. These we distributed, a few candies at a time, to the children wherever we went. One day as we sat in...
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