Appendix C
Particulars
at and near
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Farm Lots
Wong nei chung
all leaved for 75 years.
C. O.
650
F
8499
39 30 001 84,
No
Date of Sale Area
Annual becalite Upart bequalto Premium
Rental
per acre AruRmnum
Price
Kedere
per annum Realized
Farm
Sq. Feet.
228 Mar1858 65,700 €1.6.72 $5
hone
$125
Weres
441 14 July 1863 447/10
$45
10
42
da.
8/10
87
do.
155
605-
Appendix C
43
do.
1/10
do
270
44
45
46
47
A A A
do.
20
22
do.
350
do.
10
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da.
365
do
110
18
do
490
3710
32
do.
620
48
do.
کارگاهی
36
Lo.
620
49
570
377
32
حمله قل قل نقل
207/10
24
do.
815
2710
27
do.
300
17/0
15
do.
480
2710
26
do.
1420
M
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had
almost as
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trade in
their
more are
Welcome
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waters of the Songkoi is for the present com- fight 'ure regardless of their final cause, bosider
The bandit "Black Flags being provocative of strong language.
pletely at an end. We make the acquaintance, distantly of course, wild hill country of a great many bizda of the latter class as the day
as the civilized French in the part of Haiphong, They no doubt squeezed the merchants; but that advances. Before luncheon the weather is nothing new in the East. They never confiscated tolerable. The showers of rain were light and all a man's goods and flung him into gaol, or out occasional, and us we were on high ground walk his head off because he was rich, and therefore ing was not very unpleasant. We had many probably in communication with the enemy. Down disappointments of course. The birds were as wild in the Delta the French were much too fond of as warlocks, and got up with a defiant crow before that sort of thing, There are few Canton merchants we were within a hundred yards of them, and flow Some of them are in gaol. over the hill. At other times, when a steady
left in Tonquin now. lying on the“ point was made, they sat until we were within
The bones of far river banks, or by the side of the routes along ten yards of the dog, then they rose far which the French troops marched. There were not ahead and out of range, as if they had a few Chinamen shot that the French lines- been running through the heather before the dog. man might have a pigtail to carry home to his And greatly disheartened he was at finding that his lady love, Canton naturally feels sore over this, labour had been in vain. In spite of failures, how! but the city resents mach more the convention ever, we had bagged something like ten brace before which Li Hung Chang concluded in May. It is luncheon, and sat down to that repast with a unpleasant to have your friends and relations shot much relish as if our fortune had been very much down as if they were pariah dogs, but it is alto- better. Luncheon is one of the great features of i gether unendurable to have a lucrative trade ! day on the moors. It is a pienis without politics, warlike. You sit down on a bank of heather beside a roaring
spoilt. It is buying up rifles right and left, and Krupp torrent sweeping down a deep and dark dell. N
Consequently Canton is very guns are in greater demand than gray shirtings. Bounds are audible but those of nature the rush: The Canton population is turbulent enough, but ing wator, the sighing breeze, the harsh cry of the the West River pirates are better fighters, and it moor fowl, the bleating of sheep,and the barking of seems likely that they will be subsidized to make dogs at the distant sheep-fold. The mist still roll things unpleasant in North Touquin. The Freuch along the mountain sides; but looking across the may therefore bave cause to regret the too pre-moor and across Loch Earn, we see the Ardvoirlich cipitate despatch of troops to Madagascar. There hills lit up with gleams of fitful and watery sun are many pretty places for ambuscades on the way shine. The rest is welcome, after tramping and to Laokai, and the route to Caobang is a regular splashing over the moors for three or four hours, also is the restoration of the inne
man-trap. France is still a long way from having man, and refreshing is the mountain dew. Then
settled the Tonquin question, Meanwhile she is absolutely determined, if she comes the peaceful and consolatory pipe, afte follows the advice of those now in Tonquin, to which we are ready for work again. We star Fetter foreign traders. I referred above to an badly, as we have to encounter at the outset the The Thurimaru hardest piece of walking of the day--across the is a vessel which has been invaluable to the French, face of a steep hill, covered with rocks and loos outrage on an English captain, She was almost the only launch they were able to shingle. The birds, too, are fow and far betwoon charter in the early months of last year. She besides being very wild; and the dog, a fresh one carried stores, troops, served as a hospital ship, is evidently perplexed and discouraged by the
Dr. frequency with away greete
and the gauntlet of hostile guns.
xan well-meant efforts. We make ค casti
Harmand and Admiral Courbet asked Mr. Pitman, bis the owner, to go to Hongkong and get two others back on the lower ground, and there we have: like her. They were to be brought down in six rather better luck. By-and-by the rain comes weeks, and money was to be advanced for their pur-down, not in drizzle, but in a continuous downpour, chase. This money was not sent up till Christmas.and it is evident that all hope of improvement in There was then no possibility of getting launches the sport is in vain, Large and strong coveys are seen sheering off to the right and to the left,
in Hongkong. Then followed the Chinese new At last the launches were brought down, warning their friends with their cries of the General Millot, the new chief of affairs, said they approach of the enemy. We got a few long shots Mura at stray birds. One or two dropped after flying
were too late, and refused to have them. than this, he said the money advanced was enough lamely for two or three hundred yards. One "towered "splendidly after dying about a quarter French property. He sent a French quartermaster of a mile--that is to say it suddenly shot straight to pay for the Thurimaru, and declared she was on board to take charge of the vessel. Mr. Pitman upward in its flight for several yards, and then announced that he had given orders to his captain, dropped on the ground like a stone. A good deal Mr. Le Gros, a Jerseyman, to remain on board till of time was spent over these incidents, as we had force was used. After some skirmishing in the to turn back or to go aside in search of the birds. "Sook dead" was then the order given to the dog,] took no notice of, a corporal and four mon of the and very cleverly it was found. Then Bounce is shape of the delivery of orders, which the crew Foreign Legion were sent on board and presented told to "hold up" once more, and away he courses fixed bayonets at Captain Le Gros's cheat. This over the heather and through the brackens, be considered forcible and loft the ship. The Suddenly he stops, but it is only a hars that has French quartermaster took the vessel away the led him astray, and as on these moors my friend same day, ran her upon a sand bank, and smashed does not like hares to be shot over his dogs, as it the rudder, which Haiphong shipwrights have not spoils the scent of the latter, we allow puss to: yet been able to repair. Mr. Pitman, of course, escape, as we have done many another during the lodged a protest with the General, who referred day. Bounce is therefore told to "war' hare," and him to Admiral Courbet, who said Dr. Harmand to “hold up " again. This he does to some good arranged the matter and "made a mess of it as purpose, as he presently puts up a covey of seven usual. Meanwhile the Thurimaru remains dia- strong birds, two of which fall to rise no more. But abied, and Mr. Pitman is likely to bave to wait the mist is now creeping down the sides of the answer, and will mountains, and the rain is persistent and drench-
mouths before he can get au
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sort
regard to
call it
foreigners trading in Tonquin.
protection.
They
the
which "gone
probably have to whistle for justice. This is the ing. The drenching cannot make much difference; of temper the French are at present in with to us, as we were long since soaked to the skin; but the continuous downpour makes a difference to birds and to the dog. The birds are shyer and wilder than they have been all day. There they are by the score, but they keep well out of the way. We try another change of dog, but with no decided change of result. At last it seems useless to go ou, and we quit the moor an hour or two before the
ON THE MOORS.
LOOHEARNSIDE, AUG. 18.
usual time.
It may be assumed that the experience I have described has been common in this district, and
The close of the first week of grouse shooting leaves the moors in this district in rather an un- promising condition. We know nothing here of the splendid weather and the overpowering heat probably in others, during last week. It is an the experience that one expects to meet with towards Aberdeenshiro moors and further north. We have the end of the season; but it is not usual to find that seem to have been experienced on had no day since the 12th without some rain, and the birds so utterly demoralized in the first week
of grouse-shooting. The anxious question is, what is to come of it Will the birds recover their wits and settle down to a sober demeanour The
some days have been thoroughly wet. Never before, perhaps, were such bright hopes of a rich grouse harvast so completely disappointed as they have opinions of experienced sportsmen and of the been by the weather of the past week. On Tuesday, keepers are on the whole discouraging. With a es everyone knows, Scotland was visited by one of continuance of good weather sport would no doubt the greatest and most destructive thunderstorms of improve somewhat; but if it is to be of use the recent years. In this district, as in most other parts good weather must set in soon. If there is not a of the country, thunder and lightning and heavy change for the better at once, the birds will soo0 rain were persistent from morning till evening, and begin to pack" and then all bope of sport will many sportsmen quitted the moors early. The play be at an end. In any case it may be taken a of the lightning around the mountain tops and the certain that the season cannot now fulfil the roll of the thunder peals in the glena were magni- splendid promise which it gave for some weeks, ficent. The grandeur of the effects would have hafarn the orning The sanbly, of hieds
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