Personal Narrative of Occurrences During Lord Elgins Second Embassy to China 1
Personal Narrative of Occurrences During Lord Elgins Second Embassy to China 1
Henry Brougham Loch Loch
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Their sole thought seemed to be to profit as much as pos- sible by the happy chance that had sent so many "barbarians" amongst them, who paid twenty times the proper value for every- thing. There are two roads from Taku to Tien- tsin, one on either side of the Peiho, the high embankments of which can be occasionally seen from the river. The distance by the road is shorter than by the river, the windings of the latter being ii6 Lord Elgin s 2nd Embassy to China. very tortuous. The country is fla...t, highly cultivated under a very perfect system of irrigation ; there are a few trees near the vil- lages, which relieve what otherwise would be a monotonous-looking country. In about an hour the *' Coromandel" floated, and we proceeded to join the gunboats which were anchored about four miles in advance. We learnt from Capt. M'Cleverty, who was the senior officer in command, that some officials from Tien-tsin had been on board, and had informed him that we were then within ten miles of that city; they also brought the news of Hang-Fuh's arrival there that morning — he had travelled by the road from Taku ; Prince Sang-ko-lin-sin had also ridden through the town the day before on a jaded horse, accompanied by only a few followers.
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