. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Mountain Warfare between the Chinese and the Meaou-tse. r^ be kept in subjection, which they scarcely couldbe so long as they maintained the strong positionthey had hitherto occupied. The chief of theunfortunate tribe, to whom this sentence of expa-tiiation was far worse than death, collected hiswarriors around him, determined to resist to thelast, declaring that he would rather perish on hisnative soil than rule as a sovereign in a foreignland. But a still more melancholy fate than eithe
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. Mountain Warfare between the Chinese and the Meaou-tse. r^ be kept in subjection, which they scarcely couldbe so long as they maintained the strong positionthey had hitherto occupied. The chief of theunfortunate tribe, to whom this sentence of expa-tiiation was far worse than death, collected hiswarriors around him, determined to resist to thelast, declaring that he would rather perish on hisnative soil than rule as a sovereign in a foreignland. But a still more melancholy fate than eitherawaited the brave barbarian, for being at lengthmade prisoner, he was conveyed, with many other captives, to Peking, wherehe was condemned to suffer an ignominious death, together with nineteenindividuals of his family, who were beheaded at the same time with him ;while all his people, men, women, and children, were dragged from theirhomes and distributed as slaves through various parts of the empire. This appears to have been an act of ferocity on the part of Kien-longquite inconsistent with that mi
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