In the Mikado's Service : a Story of Two Battle Summers in China
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Everybody seemed to feel cock-sure that China would quickly drive the Japanese out of Korea, sink the Mikado's fleet, and then seize Yokohama and bom- bard Tokio, unless the Japanese should, before this dire eventuality, sue for peace and pay indemnity.
The ride took them in and out of all the foreign quarters and past pretty much everything to be seen, besides along the Bubbling Well Road. Yet what interested Clarence Burnham most of all was a Brit- ish steamer that had just come in from anoth...er Chinese port. It was, as Clarence roughly estimated, of about two thousand tons burthen, and might re- quire a crew of sixty men.
" I am interested in that ship," said Mr. Gordon, " for it is to carry Chinese troops to Korea. It will easily hold a full regiment." " Do the Chinese own it .' " " No ; it belongs to a steamship company in Lon- 112 IN THE MIKADO'S SERVICE.
don, which carries on trade with China and India.
The Chinese government has chartered it. The man- darins put down two hundred thousand dollars in bank to-day, to cover the cost of possible loss or injury under the charter, apart from the price of the vessel." " Supposing war should break out ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Everybody seemed to feel cock-sure that China would quickly drive the Japanese out of Korea, sink the Mikado's fleet, and then seize Yokohama and bom- bard Tokio, unless the Japanese should, before this dire eventuality, sue for peace and pay indemnity.
The ride took them in and out of all the foreign quarters and past pretty much everything to be seen, besides along the Bubbling Well Road. Yet what interested Clarence Burnham most of all was a Brit- ish steamer that had just come in from anoth...er Chinese port. It was, as Clarence roughly estimated, of about two thousand tons burthen, and might re- quire a crew of sixty men.
" I am interested in that ship," said Mr. Gordon, " for it is to carry Chinese troops to Korea. It will easily hold a full regiment." " Do the Chinese own it .' " " No ; it belongs to a steamship company in Lon- 112 IN THE MIKADO'S SERVICE.
don, which carries on trade with China and India.
The Chinese government has chartered it. The man- darins put down two hundred thousand dollars in bank to-day, to cover the cost of possible loss or injury under the charter, apart from the price of the vessel." " Supposing war should break out ?
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