13б CAPTURE OF SI-NING. 



indifferent to death, and walks to the scaffold like an 

 animal without reason. 



Having celebrated the marriage of the Emperor, 

 the Chinese troops recommenced military operations 

 and soon took Si-ninof. Then commenced a whole- 

 sale butchery of the vanquished. We were told by 

 eye-witnesses that the Chinese soldiers, wearied with 

 slaying the people with cold steel, collected them 

 into bands, without distinction of age or sex, and 

 drove them to the mountains, where they pitched 

 them down precipices; in this way 10,000 were put 

 to death. 



After the capture of Si-ning, its Chinese governor 

 was reinstated, and in the course of the winter three 

 more towns were re-captured : Seng-kwan, Yunan- 

 chen, and Tatung. Here they only spared those of 

 the rebels who would abjure Mahommedanism and 

 embrace Buddhism. Numbers of Duncjans fled to 

 join their co-religionists in the west. 



After receiving further reinforcements from 

 Peking, the Chinese continued their advance west- 

 wards, and in the summer of 1873 captured the 

 important rebel position of Suh-chau.^ No authentic 

 news of the recent operations of the Chinese has 

 been received. They have now, at all events, a more 

 difficult task before them, in their struercfle with 

 Yakub Beg of Kashgar. 



Here is the list of Tangut Avords which I made : 



Mountain . . Ri-i^ i River .... Chsiuchen(g) 



Range . . . Khika | Rivulet . . . Siubchen(g) 



' It is reported that all the inhabitants of Suh-chau were massacred. 

 ' Prolonged vowels are denoted by doul^ling them. 



