. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. the bearer to receive thepromised reward. Englishmen sailing in small schooners or boats areordered to be attacked and exterminated. Honors, rewards, and happiness,will be the lot of him who kills an Englishman. It was by these unfairproceedings, and not by the chances of war, that British soldiers and sea-men became prisoners in China ; yet it is very probable that the Chinese,unacquainted as they are with the rules of European warfare, saw nolhingdishonorable in taking every means in th
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. the bearer to receive thepromised reward. Englishmen sailing in small schooners or boats areordered to be attacked and exterminated. Honors, rewards, and happiness,will be the lot of him who kills an Englishman. It was by these unfairproceedings, and not by the chances of war, that British soldiers and sea-men became prisoners in China ; yet it is very probable that the Chinese,unacquainted as they are with the rules of European warfare, saw nolhingdishonorable in taking every means in their power of ridding themselves ofan enemy with whom they began to find they should be unable to contendin fair fight, and from whom they anticipated all manner of injury. The Chinese army is composed of the native troops and the Tartarlegions, the latter amounting to about eighty thousand men, ranged undereight banners, and always at the disposal of the government. Their colorsare yellow, white, red, and blue ; which, variously bordered, form eight dif- THE MANTCHOW DYNASTY—TAOU-KWANG: 1820-50. 147. ferent standards. The Tartar soldiers are far more effective than the Chinese,as they are warlike by nature, trained to arms, and regularly organized; whereas, the Chinese merely consti-tute a militia, as they dwell at theirown homes, clothe and arm them-selves according to their own fancy,and are very seldom required for ac-tual service. Their ciiief duty, asmilitary men, is to act as police in thecities ; and in case of any local dis-turbances or rebellion of the moun-taineers, they are obliged to take thefield ; but in general they spend thegreater part of the year with theirfamilies, engaged in cultivating theland ; and as they receive pay fromthe government, every countryman isdesirous of being enrolled as a sol-dier, for the sake of increasing bisciiinese Soldier. means of Subsistence. The enlistment of soldiers is a very remarkable ceremony, every manbeing required to give
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