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- Chinese Floating Mines used againsts HMS Encounter
A, Wires to catch side of ship. B, Lead weight. C, Jars of Gunpowder. D, Case with side broken away to show jars. E, Raft. - Chinese Floating Mines used againsts HMS Encounter
A, Can buoy containing powder. B, Box containing lighted match and punk below. C, Lid or slide between match and punk. D, String for pulling out slide, to allow match to ignite punk. - Young Chinese Boy
- When Ah Tcha had eaten his Evening Rice, he took lantern and entered the largest of his mills
- We are the Shen, demons of the sea
- Tiao Fu snatched up her little-used embroidery scissors. Snip, Snip, Snip
- Three Old Men
- Three children and the old man
- This nice large one is for your dinner
- This nice large one is for your dinner a
- Therefore—upon his donkey—the contrary husband started for Tsun Pu
- Then he seized the plaques and flung them from him
- The royal generals . . . knelt before Hai Low and bumped their heads in the dust
- The king crawled under his throne
- The king and his generals gazed across the river
- The house of Weng Fu was luxurious in the extreme
- The first portrait he painted was that of Ying Ning, a monstrous ugly maiden
- So the seventh demon sped away taking the sea with him
- So Chai Mi sat beside the river and sewed and wept
- Rough Sea Divider
- Rooster divider
- Reading a scroll
- Prince Chin Pa tried in vain to hold his followers
- Painting a rock
Painting a rock - Of course, they wore hideous false faces
- Old Chinese Man Divider
- More and more sad came the music
- Meng Hu could imagine a knife at his throat
- Man working at the table
- It was the howl of a wolf
- Kneeling before a tree
- It was a well-plucked traveler who returned
- 'I—I—I—am hungry,' stammered Han Hsin
- How could she make beds when her hair needed burnishing
- House under a tree
- He made a V of the bowstring
- He was a weighty elephant—amid the cabbages
- He kept his forehead tight-pressed to the floor
- Han Hsin raised a bridge from island to mainland
- Flowers in the rain
- Drinking Tea
- Floral Divider
- Dragon
- Dragon Divider
- Doctor Chu Ping beamed upon him
- Chinese man rowing divider
- Divider
- By look and action he was a maiden
- 'Broooomp'
- At that same hour a basket was found in the garden
- A whanging of wings that lifted . . . Up . . . Higher . . . Swifter
- A necklace
- . . . And cut leaf-shaped pieces
- A helping hand
- Young Chinese Divider
- Chinese street scene
- Twisting a man's Ears
He is held securely by two men, in the service of a tribunal, who are instructed to give pain, by a particular method of twisting the cartilages of the ears . - Torturing the Fingers
This is effected by placing small pieces of wood betwixt them, and then drawing them very forcibly together with cords. It is frequently inflicted as a punishment upon disorderly women . There are no people existing, who pay so sacred an attention to the laws of decency as the Chinese ; habituated in preserving the constant appearance of modesty and self -controul, nothing is more uncommon amongst them, than deleterious examples of unblushing vice ; and if there be truth in the old maxim , that want of decency, either in action , or in word, betrays a deficiency of understanding, they certainly indicate more sense than some other nations , who affect to excel them in education and refinement. The general manners of people of every condition in China wear as modest a habit, as their persons. They discover no gratification in wresting their proper language into impure meanings; and grossly offensive phrases are only to be heard amongst the very dregs of the community, and at the risk of immediate and severe judicial correction . - The Rack
This horrible engine of barbarity and error is not peculiar to Roman Catholic countries, it is used even in China , for the purpose of extorting confession . The method of employing it, in torturing the ankles, is exhibited in this Plate . The instrument is composed of a thick , strong plank, having a contrivance at one end to secure the hands, and at the other a sort of double wooden vice . The vice is formed of three stout uprights, two of which are moveable, but steadied by a block , that is fastened on each side. The ankles of the culprit being placed in the machine, a cord is passed round the uprights, and held fast by two men . The chief tormentor then gradually introduces a wedge into the intervals , alternately changing sides . This method of forcing an expansion at the upper part, causes the lower ends to draw towards the central upright , which is fixed into the plank , and thereby compresses the ankles of the wretched sufferer ; who, provided he be fortified by innocence, or by resolution, endures the advances of the wedge, until his bones are completely reduced to a jelly. - The Manner of Beheading
This sort of punishment, being deemed in the highest degree ignominious , is only inflicted for crimes, which are regarded by the Chinese government, as the most prejudicial to society ; such as conspiracy,assassination , committing any offence against the person of the Emperor, or attempting the life of any of the imperial family ; revolting, insurrection , striking a parent, or any other unnatural sort of crime. The malefactor, who is condemned to be beheaded, is made to kneel upon the ground, the board of infamy is taken from his back, and the executioner, by a single blow of a two - handed sword, strikes off his head with great dexterity. These headsmen , and indeed, the generality of inferior officers of justice in China, are selected from the soldiery, according to the custom of primitive barbarians ; neither is this employment considered more ignominious, than the post of principal officer of executive justice in other countries . Decapitation is held, by the Chinese, as the most disgraceful kind of death ; because the head, which is the principal part of a man , is separated from the body, and that body is not consigned to the grave as entire as he received it from his parents .. If a great mandarin be convicted of any atrocious offence, he is executed in this manner like the meanest person . After the head is severed , it is frequently suspended from a tree, by the side of a public road ; the body is thrown into a ditch , the law having deemed it unworthy the respect of regular funereal rites . When a sentence is submitted to the Emperor for his approbation, if the crime be of the first degree of atrocity , he orders the malefactor to be executed without delay ; when it is only of an ordinary nature, he directs, that the criminal shall be imprisoned until the autumn, and then executed ; a particular day of that season being allotted for such ceremonies. The Emperor of China seldom orders a subject to be executed , until he has consulted with his first law officers, whether he can avoid it, with out infringing on the constitution of his realm . He fasts for a certain period, previous to signing an order for an execution ; and his imperial majesty esteems those years of his reign the most illustrious and most fortunate , in which he has had the least occasion to let fall upon his subjects the rigorous sword of justice.