Excerpt from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh, Vol. 2: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution, Including a Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures Till noon we carried the breeze, but the day becoming hot the wind fell, and so we were obliged to run close to the bank, land our crew with a mast-head mm, and slowly track up stream. Just before dusk a light breeze sprang up again, and getting the men on board we made sail to round the Mud Fort, situated on the extreme point of the elbow formed by the river at Nin-gan-shan. This fort, ...
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Excerpt from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh, Vol. 2: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution, Including a Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures Till noon we carried the breeze, but the day becoming hot the wind fell, and so we were obliged to run close to the bank, land our crew with a mast-head mm, and slowly track up stream. Just before dusk a light breeze sprang up again, and getting the men on board we made sail to round the Mud Fort, situated on the extreme point of the elbow formed by the river at Nin-gan-shan. This fort, upon my passage down from Nankin, was held by the Ti-pings; upon this occasion, to my sorrow, I found the Imperialists in possession; its former garrison having betrayed their charge, and sold it to the enemy. We had barely rounded the point, making almost imperceptible headway, when the wind failed, and the tide, at this point very strong, began to carry us down stream. At this moment, five gunboats put off from the shore and pulled directly towards my vessel. Upon nearing her, they hailed and ordered us to anchor. I now perceived that they were Imperialists, and, from the flags displayed, that they were of the squeezing, or custom-house genus. P and myself immediately armed ourselves, and ordered the lowder to' hold on his course. The tide was fast drifting our vessel in to the bank, right under the guns of the fort, and directly the men in the gunboats perceived this, and saw only two foreigners on board, and that we mounted no guns, they surrounded us and Opened fire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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