The Land of the Boxers; or, China under the AlliesCasserly, Gordon
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The Land of the Boxers; or, China under the Allies
Casserly, Gordon
China -- Description and travel
Map of Kowloon Hinterland, 216
Marble junk, 127
Marble bridge at Summer Palace, 127
Marco Polo, 269
Melville, Lieut., 22nd Bombay Infantry, 208
Mikado, 292
Military Club, Macao, 241
Military College, Tientsin, 295
Moji, 253
Monte Carlo of the East, 232
Moon, Temple of, 70
Mosquitoes, 141
Mount Austen Hotel, 182
Mounted Infantry in Tientsin, 26;
usefulness in Hong Kong, 200
Mud of Pekin, 82
Mutiny in Macao, 242
Mutiny, impossibility of another Indian, 62
Nagoya, electric cars in, 293
Naval Dockyard at Wei‐hai‐wei, 4;
at Hong Kong, 178
Navy, German, 40
Newchwang, Russian church parade in, 45;
railway to, 133
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 293
Ogilvie, Lieut., R.A., 208
Old Kowloon City, 186, 188
Osaka, 293
Outrages on foreigners in China, 287
Pagoda, bronze, 130
Patriotism, want of, 281;
of India, 282
Peak in Hong Kong, 175, 181, 183
Pearl River, 236, 261
Peddlers in Pekin, 102;
in Canton, 261
Peiho River, 9, 19
Peitan, Roman Catholic Cathedral, 95;
siege, 97
Peiyang Arsenal, taking of, 219, 295;
Russian losses at, 297
Pekin, journey to, 65;
station, 66;
description, 71;
walls of, 72;
Tartar and Chinese cities, 72;
Tartar city, 72;
Legations, 78;
mud, 82;
Allied occupation of, 83;
Forbidden City, 87
_Pigmy_, H.M.S., takes Shanhaikwan forts, 134
Pioneers, 28th Bombay, 57
Police of Macao, 241;
affair with, 246
Police of new territory, British, 213
Polo ground in Victoria, 180
Polo in Hong Kong, 180
Ponies, troublesome Chinese, 116
Population of Canton, 263
Port Arthur, reinforcements from, 46;
retention of, 156
Portuguese colony of Macao, 231;
tribute to China, 232;
police, 246;
Naval Tennis Club, 251
Powell, Sir Francis, R.N., 178
Pottery, 106
Praia Grande, 238
Punjaub Infantry, 4th, in action with Japanese troops, 48;
guarding the railway, 135;
under Lieut. Stirling, D.S.O., 168
Purple or Forbidden City, 73
Puzzle‐balls, Chinese, 267
Quarto del Sargento, 248
Queen’s House, Wei‐hai‐wei, 5
Queen’s Road, Hong Kong, 248
Railways in North China, 133;
from Tong‐ku to Pekin, 13, 65;
to Shanhaikwan, 135
Railway, projected, to Canton, 196
Railway Siding incident, 32
Railway Staff Officers, British, 14
Reformers in Southern China, 206
Ringing Rocks at Macao, 255
Roberts, Lord, 57
Royal Indian Marine Officers, 12
Royal Welch Fusiliers, attack on patrol, 23;
in the Hinterland, 198;
Hong Kong garrison, 200
Rudkin, Lieut, 20th Bombay Infantry, his tact and firmness, 33
Rue du General Voyron, Pekin, 97
Rundell, Lieut., R.E., 208
Russian Army, 44;
troops, 44;
endurance of soldiers, 45;
piety, 45;
courage, 46;
comradeship between officers and men, 47
Russian Railway Staff Officer at Shanhaikwan, 144
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