- 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
- A culprit conducted to trial
He is preceded by a man, who strikes upon a gong, in order to draw upon the offender the notice of the public. Two others walk after him , one of whom is employed in keeping up his face with a bundle of cleft A little red banner is fastened on each side of the culprit, to render him more conspicuous ; and his hands are tied behind his back . - A Culprit before a Magistrate
It is the custom in China , for a Mandarin of justice to administer it daily , morning and evening , in his own house, where he is attended by his secretary, or clerk, and by inferior officers, some of them bearing iron shackles, and others, pan-tsees . Upon his right hand stands the Prosecutor, or Informer ; and before him is a table with a covering of silk , and the implements of writing for the secretary to take down the depositions and defence . These having been written in black ink, the magistrate signs them with red, and seals them with the same colour. On the table there are, also, a number of small sticks, tipped with red ; these are kept in open cases , and are used in the following manner : if a culprit is convicted of a petty offence, the magistrate causes him to be immediately chastised, and released . The usual punishment, upon such occasions, is the pan -tsee, or bastinade, and the number of blows to be inflicted is signified by the magistrate's casting some of the above men tioned small sticks upon the floor : each stick denotes five blows. The culprit, who, during the examination , has awaited the decree upon his hands and knees , is then seized by the attendants, and punished as will be seen in a subsequent Plate . After the magistrate has thrown the sticks, he talks of other affairs, drinks his tea , or smokes his tobacco . It is only for trivial breaches of the Chinese Laws , such as drunken ness, cheating, squabbling, boxing, pilfering, insolence or inattention towards a superior, or the like, that any magistrate is empowered to administer punishment in a summary manner. Whenever the crime is of such a description as to call for severer notice, it is generally exa mined into by five or six tribunals, who not only require very particular information concerning the charge, but scrutinize with minute exactness, into the characters and manners of the accusers . Their proceedings in capital accusations are thus protracted in China , lest any man should be unjustly deprived of the inestimable benefits of honour or life : and no criminal can be executed , until his trial has been sent to court, and his sentence has been confirmed by the Emperor. - A Culprit conveyed to Prison
An iron chain, fastened by a padlock, is put round his neck, and, if he refuses to proceed , inferior officers of justice compel him, after the manner described . - 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.