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Extracts from

The British Arnes

North China and Japan. Peking 1860. Sagorima 1862. By D. F. Hennie M. F Senior Medical Officer of the Force in North China,

etc. etc. London, 1864.

4. 12. During the operations against Canton, the dilitary Train has been composed of Chinese coolies. This comper had not been disbanded (May 1860) and an an-extension and re-organisation of it for the expedition was in course of progressqunder the superintentence of Major Temple, of the 12th Madras Native Infantry, who has hitherto commanded it. Enlistment was going on briskly enough, but the diffically re-taining the recruits afterwards, as numbers:

boller es soon.

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they had received the advance of two months' pay granter

on

theme

for service in the north.

imbarking for service

14. The 400 coolies that are to be attached to each

regiment going north will be superintended by

one

Twelve Rese

officer, two sergeants, and thirty steady old soldiers, selecter from the regiment. physicians have been engaged at thirty dollars

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