CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 465

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

during the passage down impressed upon all the officials the necessity of restraining their troops from Committing ontrages

of any kind, and I u

Who

glad

to obene

that injunctions in this since were lair afom the inferior officers.

The suggestion as to surrounding the village was not horower, properly.

caried and, and in a short time a

t

long line of the inhabitants was

Seen

hills

from the gumbrst ascending

fume

Crumened

the cover on

which, they

the

firing in the braves who

entered the village. The Heiangshan

junks

www meanwhile commonading Pakshmi, the distinction of which

plver

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hastenis by the Cantin

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troops, who fired the bonses in Obbedienas

to the creus of their Commander. I no landed with Cmimander St John, and,

poping through hom shui

(by this time also in

flames), consultent measures with the Prefect who had advanced beyond the piece

as to forthri

with some 850 men, but was irresolute

about furceding hills in

over the densely wooded

pinsint of the Villagers, who

were stite firing into the valley and

at the braves who wew canti

ascending

It

cantionsly

in small parties.

was determined to despatios

the " Janus" Mun wan

with a

and "Hai Tsing" to

Mm..

the Southern Coast,

party of troops, in order

to

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