36
406
gunboat going
When the affair
down, they became much depressed.
was over, several of them were
observed to refuse heir food; and when acker the
one coME
" how can
forward
as spokesman and said; catchee chow-chow, when five piecee
gunboat makee die " ; ex amount of sensitive.
news, if real, that could
/
pecter of
them.
hartly
have teen exa
service of
184. "The Carnese coolier in the service of the French
were exployed (in storming the Taka forts)
bringing up
ladders which exposed
the
sealing.
them to a severe fire, causing several casal. alties amongst them. They
d to have reported
the
behaved remarkably well, displaying great cool.
ness under fire.
Zout C-
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the norhern
4. 122-124. The low of the Chinese in defending,
forts must have been heavy, judging from the numbers of dead lying about yesterday. Though
of the bodies were
fearfully mintilated by cannon shot, yet the majority of the dea) seemed to have been either shot by rifle ballets on begoneted in resisting the storming.
could have behaver better han they did, and
it