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money or gold and silver ornaments which are 

 often deposited with the bodies after death. Of 

 all that band of marauders who fled from Shanghae 

 that night, but few remained either to fight or 

 to steal. The numerous heads which were after- 

 wards seen on poles, and trees, and walls, the 

 fearful stench which poisoned the air for many 

 weeks during the hot weather which followed, told 

 a sickening tale of crime and blood. The bravery 

 displayed by them on many occasions showed 

 plainly of what stuff the Chinese are made, and 

 what as a nation China may yet become, and made 

 one regret it had not been shown in a better 

 cause. 



When I arrived at Shanghae, a few days after 

 the evacuation, I found fully one-third of this 

 ancient city in ruins. The poor inhabitants were 

 wandering about looking out for the spots where 

 their dwellings formerly stood, and in many in- 

 stances marking their boundaries with a few stones 

 or bricks. Most of them seemed completely heart- 

 broken and paralysed, and were taking no steps 

 to rebuild their former homes. The gardens and 

 nurseries in the city and suburbs have necessarily 

 suffered severely. It was quite melancholy to 

 look into many of them. One just outside the 

 north gate, which furnished me with some of my 

 finest plants when I was collecting for the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London, was completely de- 

 stroyed. A fine Glycine sinensis^ which formerly 

 covered a large trellis, was now half-buried in 



