1842
Tecomat of the Manichon, at Chapm
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incense sticks and lighted candles are placed as pertaining to the duties of morning and evening devotion A picture of the emperor or empress is not seen in every house. for I imagine that such a picture is not always to be obtamed, while Show shing kung, the officer in his robes, with his ugly father and clouterly offspring may be obtained at any painter s shop, for a trifling sum of money
As the business of the Tartars is fighting, bows and arrows, match- locks and ginjalls, powder and other warlike materials were blended with the furniture of the dwellings, and met the visitor at every turn In the routine of daily exercise, their minds become as familiar with the use of arms as their bodies are with rest and refreshment
Among other literary monuments, I found a description of Chápú in the Chinese language The date of this performance is not set down, but from the state of the ink and the texture of the paper, I should guess it to be not more than 30 or 40 years old. It was probably in part from a printed work which I have seen, and in part composed from the original, by some Tartar soldier acquainted with Chinese, as it chiefly relates to the affairs of the army. From this manuscript now before me, it appears, that in the time of Yungching two Tartar camps were organized, consisting of 800 troops cach, that is of sixteen centuries or compauies of one hundred respectively, marshaled under its own peculiar banner. This garrison was commanded by 42 officers of different ranks and functions. About the same time 400 marines were added to render the force more effective in its cooperation with the coast guard. Additions were subsequently made to the official staff, the value and importance of which it would not be casy to estinate without the assistance of a 'Tartar soldier. About five years after the organization of the garrison, the Hángchau general, as commanding officer appointed a maker of bows and two blacksmiths to each banner, that with the original complement the number of armorers amounted to thirty-two. In the following year sixteen of the siniths became bow-makers, so anxious were the heads of the war department, that the troops should be well provided with these war- like implements. The statute number of arrows as I gather from the list was 30,000. The smiths were cinployed in making steel helucts, swords and matchlocks. A stand of 1500 of the last was ordered to be in readiness for use
It appears that cach century had a banner of a different color with a flying tiger depicted upon it Several of these were taken by our troops on the day of the attack and shown to the wearer as oller. ing a problem for his solution Each fifty men had its hommes with a