FOOTNOTES:
[75] See Friend of China, July 11, 1865.
[76] See the account from Shanghae Recorder, at the end of the preceding chapter.
[77] Referring to Colonel Gordon, Captain Osborn, R.N., and their subordinates.
[78] Meaning the noble occupation of buying and selling; and that, too, at the point of the bayonet.
[79] Times, January 12, 1865. China Overland Trade Report, 30th November, 1864.
[80] The Times, October 26, 1864, in its China intelligence (under date, "Shanghae, September 4"), describing the evacuation of Hoo-chow, makes the following statement, which is a further proof of the total or partial escape of the Nankin garrison:—"The rebel force had been so greatly swollen by fugitives from Nankin and other places, that it constituted quite a formidable army."
[81] The writer of the letter has evidently made a confusion of the name, Le, and title, Shi, of the chief, for the following proclamations prove him to be the Shi or Shee Wang.
[82] This must mean Nankin.