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Also that owing to so many projectiles piteling

Just short of the ships and ricochetting, a dangerous zono

aloft was croatod, which rendered Mghting tops almost

useless.

Tyler hopes to go home in a week or two, and

I will doubtless cell on you, or the E. 7. f.

It is really too bad of Col.aurice to go and

start a new horror about China in time United Service

Magazine for Pobmuar! he telka shout typime fever being

almost cartsin to occur among the 500,000 111 disciplined

troops concentrated round Peking; one's friends have

quite sufficiant grounds for uneasînues without fol.

Maurico inventing another

Chinamen always do live in a most concentrated

form and there are no sanitary arrangements in their

towne, yet there is no tyrlan; why should there be when

they are concentrated in the open air

There is no snow

to malt, the excremont, if not rapidly dessicated and

dissipated in the dry air, is vacurly competed for by

pigs, dogs, and poultry as food, and by men, for manure,

and not a scrap of offal or manure which can be not at is

ever wasted; moreover the Chinese troops are very caru-

ful about the cleanliness of thair care, all offel and

extrument is deposited outside this camp, where it is

spoedily