The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Land of the Boxers, or China under the Allies, by Captain Gordon Casserly.

INDEX

Aberdeen, 181
Admiral Ho, 201, 214, 215
Admiral Seymour at the siege of Tientsin, 24;
his advance on Pekin, 30
Affleck‐Scott, Mr., 216
Ah Ting, Naval Dairy Farm, 4
Alarm in Hong Kong, 204
Alarm in Macao, 242
Allied Armies, men and methods of, 34
Allied Commissioners in Canton, 259
Allied Fleet at Taku, 8
American Army, Continental criticism, 51;
excellence of the men, 51;
elastic discipline, 51;
courage of, 52;
gallantry at Tientsin, 53;
comradeship with British troops, 53;
contempt for Continentals, 53;
discomfiture of British subaltern, 54
Army, American, 50;
Chinese in the past, 280;
of the future, 298;
Dutch, 54;
French, 42;
German, 34;
Indian, 55;
Japanese, 47;
Russian, 44;
Italian, 54
Arrest, in Japan, 252;
in Macao, 246;
of an English colonel in Macao, 251
Arrow, incident of the, 258
Astor House Hotel, Tientsin, 22
Barracoons in Macao, 255
Barrett, Lieut., Hong Kong Regiment, 199
Bathing parties in Hong Kong, 191
Bayly, Captain, R.N., gallantry at Tientsin, 45
Belcher’s Fort, 176
Belgian Legation in Pekin, 78, 80
Bella Vista, Macao, 240
Bengal Lancers, 1st, 59
Bersagliere, 54, 176
Bikanir, H.H. the Maharajah of, 180
Black Flags, 204
Boa Vista Hotel, 238
Boer Campaign, lessons of, 34;
foreign ignorance respecting, 41
Bogue Forts, 277
Bombay Light Cavalry, 3rd, 60;
a sowar’s opinion of the Russians, 164
Bombay Infantry, 22nd, 200, 204, 208, 229
Bombay Pioneers, 28th, 57
Bower, Lieut.‐Col., Chinese Regiment, 296
Boxers, night attack on Tientsin station, 15;
courage of, 24, 295;
losses, 25;
hostility to Cantonese traders, 284
Brigands, 136
Bridge of boats at Tientsin, 19
Bridge, marble, at Summer Palace, 127
Bronze Pagoda, 130
Bronzes in Forbidden City, 90, 93
Browning, Major, 48, 135, 168
Buddha, images of, 109
Buddhist monks, 108
Buddhist temple, 107
Burke, Lieut., 22nd Bombay Infantry, 208, 229
Cable tramway to the Peak, 181
Camoens, Gardens of, 254
Cangue, punishment of the, 269
Canton, history of intercourse with foreigners, 257;
food supplier to Hong Kong, 171;
projected railway to, 171, 196;
turbulence, 204;
reformers in, 206;
land and river approach, 278;
description, 261;
population, 263;
its streets, 264;
its shops, 265;
prison, 269;
its trade, 275;
its importance to English commerce, 275;
an attack on, 277;
energy of French consuls in, 276
Cap‐sui‐Moon Pass, 209
Carvalhaes, Senhor, A.D.C. to Governor of Macao, 244, 250, 251
Casserly, Lieut., 208
Cathedral, Roman Catholic, in Pekin, 95;
its siege, 97;
at Canton, 263;
San Paulo at Macao, 254
Cavalry, French, 43;
Japanese, 47;
Indian, 59;
in Hong Kong, 200
Cemetery at Wei‐hai‐wei, 4;
Macao, 245
Centre of the Universe, 70
Cession of the Kowloon Hinterland, 197
Chasseurs d’Afrique, 43, 66
Chifu, 6
China an easy prize, 280;
her sufferings in the past from foreigners, 290;
of the present, 291;
of the future, 293
Chinese Army of the past, 280;
want of patriotism, 281;
family love, 281;
Mohammedans, 283;
difference in languages, 283;
dislike to foreigners, 286;
extortion of mandarins, 291;
as merchants abroad, 294;
trade honesty of, 294;
splendid material for soldiers, 296;
in modern warfare, 296;
soldiers in the South, 227;
in the North, 228;
examinations, 273
Chinese Arsenal at Tientsin, 15;
guns made at, 217
Chinese Regiment, guard at Wei‐hai‐wei, 7;
barracks, 6;
behaviour in action, 295, 296
Chinese workmen, 97
Chong Wong Foo, 83
City Hall, Hong Kong, 176
Clocks in Emperor’s palace, 91
Club, Hong Kong, 176;
Tientsin, 20;
German at Tientsin, 22;
English Tennis at Macao, 244;
Portuguese Naval Tennis Club, Macao, 251;
Military Club, Macao, 241
Cloisonné in Pekin, its manufacture, 111
Coal Hill, Pekin, 74
Cockroaches as an article of diet, 224
Concessions, European, in Tientsin, 17;
in Canton, 259, 274
Confucius, Temple of, 111
Consulate, British, at Tientsin, 20;
foreign, at Canton, 274
Coolie Corps, 10
Cossacks at play, 163
Customs, Imperial Chinese, station on Mah Wan, 209;
at Samchun, 212;
officers of, 217
Curzon, Lord, Problems of the Far East, 69
Dagoes, 53
Daibutsu at Kamakura and Hiogo, 109
Death of a thousand cuts, 271
De Boulay, Major, R.A., 121
Deep Bay, 196, 210
Development of Japan, 293
Dobell, Major, D.S.O., Royal Welch Fusiliers, 85
Docks, Kowloon, 187
Dockyard, Royal Naval, at Wei‐hai‐wei, 4;
at Hong Kong, 178
Dorward, General, his eulogy of American troops, 52
Dowager‐Empress, her pavilion in the Forbidden City, 92;
palace in Pekin, 74;
Summer Palace, 115;
seizure of the Emperor, 115;
supposed plan to entrap the Allies, 206
Dragon Gate in Canton, 274
Drummond, Mr. Ivor, C.I.C., 31
Dutch Expeditionary Force, 54;
their envy of the Portuguese colonies in the past—attempt on Macao, 232
East India Company in Canton, 258
Efficiency of British officers of the Indian Army, 57;
of the Japanese Intelligence Department, 49
Egyptian fellah compared to the Chinaman, 297
Elderton, Commander, D.S.O., good work at Taku, 8
Embroidery in Canton, 268
Emperor, his powerlessness, 64;
his palace, 89;
throne room, 89;
harem, 90;
private apartments, 91
English Concession at Tientsin, 17
English Legation at Pekin, 78
English officers, friendship with the Americans, 21;
linguists in China, 19;
supposed ungraciousness of manners, 81;
plain campaigning dress, 27
Examinations, Chinese system of, 273
Examination Hall in Canton, 273
Examiners, Chinese, at Canton, 274
Executions at Tientsin, 28;
in Canton, 271
Extortion of mandarins, 291
Fair, Lieut., R.N., Flag‐Lieutenant to Admiral Seymour, 24
Family love of the Chinese, 281
Fans, 106
Fan‐tan in Samchun, 225;
in Macao, 253
Fares from Hong Kong to Canton and Macao, 235
Favrier, Archbishop, defends the Peitan gallantly, 95;
captures a Chinese gun, 96;
introduction to him, 99
Ferreira Amaral, Governor of Macao, refuses to pay tribute to the Chinese, 232
Fighting races of India, 56
Fireworks, Chinese, 219
Flags of Chinese troops in Samchun, 215, 227
Floating population of Canton, 260;
of Hong Kong, 185
Flora, Governor’s summer residence, 240
Flowery Forest Monastery, 269
Forbidden City, 73, 86
French Army, 42;
intimacy between French and German soldiers in Tientsin, 40;
Infanterie Coloniale, 42;
infantry, 43;
officers, 43;
method of maintaining discipline, 43;
training and organisation, 44;
Zouaves and Chasseurs d’Afrique, 43
French colonial party, suspected designs on Macao, 233;
on Canton, 275
French post‐office in Canton, 276
Frontier Field Force, 208
Frontier of the Kowloon Hinterland, 196
Fusiliers, Royal Welch, attack on a patrol, 23;
in the Hinterland, 198;
Hong Kong garrison, 200
Garrison of Hong Kong, 199;
of Macao, 241
Gascoigne, Major‐General Sir W., 199
Gaselee, General Sir A., K.C.B., 204
German Army, 34;
adherence to close formations and antiquated tactics, 35;
campaigning dress in China, 39;
failure of transport, 39;
soldiers, 40;
their friendship with the French, 40;
officers of, 37
German Club at Tientsin, 22
German Imperial Navy, 40;
mercantile marine, 40
Gordon Hall, Tientsin, 22, 28
Gough, Sir Hugh, attacks Canton, 258
Government of Macao, 241
Governor of Macao, 244
Grant‐Smith, Mr. Ivan, 245, 252
Gray, Captain, 4th P.I., 167
Green Island, 173
Gunboats, allied, at Taku, 9, 10;
at Canton, 274;
British fired at, 276
Gurkhas, friendship with Japanese, 50, 166;
ingratitude of foreign troops sheltered by them, 166;
officers at Shanhaikwan, 138
Hall, Examination at, Canton, 273
Hall of Five Hundred Genii, 269
Hall of Ten Thousand Ages, 123
Happy Valley, 179
Hardy, Rev. Mr., 1
Harem, Emperor’s, in Pekin, 90
Ha‐ta‐man Street, 102;
Gate, 77
Hatherell, Captain, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 208, 229
Heaven, Temple of, 67
Heungshan, S.S., 235
Heung Shan, Island of, 233
Hinterland, Kowloon, 194;
character and description of, 195;
projected railway through, 196;
cession, 196;
advantages to Hong Kong, 198;
column guarding it, 202;
want of maps of, 216;
British police in, 198
Honam, Cantonese suburb of, 260, 263
Hong Kong, importance as a naval and military base, 167;
harbour, 184;
menace of famine, 170;
commercial importance, 171;
geography, 172;
description, 174–184;
Club, 177;
climate, 184;
society in, 190;
value of dollar, 235
Hong Kong Regiment, bravery at Tientsin, 15;
barracks, 187;
disbanded, 187
Hong Kong, Canton to Macao Steamboat Co., 234
Hong Kong and Singapore Artillery, 199
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, ruins in Pekin, 71;
building in Hong Kong, 176
Hong Kong Volunteers, 188, 199
Horrors, Temple of, 272
Hôtel du Nord, Pekin, 71
Hsi‐ku Arsenal, 30
Hsin‐ho, British landing‐place at, 10
Hutchinson, Lieut., R.N.R., 25, 135
Imperial apartments, 91
Imperial Maritime Customs, Chinese, gunboat, 210;
officers, 217;
station at Samchun, 212
Imperial troops, Chinese, 24, 296
Indian Army, 55;
fighting races of, 56;
Lord Roberts chiefly responsible for its efficiency, 57;
its British officers, 57;
organisation of a regiment, 58;
foreign criticisms, 59;
Russian opinion of, 156;
cavalry, 59;
infantry, 60;
impossibility of another Mutiny, 62;
loyalty of the sepoy, 63
India as a training‐ground for troops, 61
Indian Expeditionary Force, 33, 55
Indian Commissariat at Wei‐hai‐wei, 5;
at Hong Kong, 178
Indian Marine, Royal, officers of, 12
Infanterie Coloniale, 42
Infantry, excellence of Japanese, 48;
Indian, foreign criticisms of, 60;
composition of a native regiment of, 58
Intelligence Department, Japanese, 49
Italian Expeditionary Force, 54
Ivory carving in Canton, 266
Japan in the past, 292;
its modern development, 293;
arrests in, 252
Japanese Army captures Wei‐hai‐wei, 3;
transport, 47;
campaigning dress, 47;
cavalry, 47;
infantry, 48;
infantry in action, 48;
organisation, 49;
Intelligence Department, 49;
officers as intelligence agents in Pekin, 49;
excellent discipline, 49;
courage and moderation, 50;
friendship for Indian troops, 50, 165
Japanese Fleet, arrival at Shanhaikwan, 149
Johnstone, Major, R.M.L.I., 30
Junks, marble junk, 127;
junks in Hong Kong harbour, 210;
war junks, 211
Kell, Lieut., S. Stafford Regt., 144
Kettler, murder of Baron, 83;
monument, 83
Kettlewell, Major, commands Frontier Field Force, 208
Kipling, Rudyard, his description of Canton, 256
Kowloon, 174, 186;
docks, 187;
society, 193
Kowloon, Chinese city of, 186, 188
Kowloon Peninsula, 172, 183, 194
Kowloon Hinterland, see Hinterland.
Kwang‐tung, 194;
rebellion in, 207
Labertouche, Captain, 22nd Bombay Infantry, 146
Ladies’ Recreation Ground, Hong Kong, 184
Lama Temple, Great, Pekin, 107
Lampacao, Portuguese settlement on, 231
Language, difference in Chinese languages in various provinces, 283;
polyglot, 20;
British officers as interpreters, 19
Lantau, Island of, 183
Legation Street, Pekin, 70, 80
Legations, Pekin, 78;
defence of, 78;
visit to English Legation, 79;
guard, 79;
new defensive wall, 107
Li Hung Chang, 128, 204
Ling‐chi, torture of, 271
Liscum, Colonel, U.S. Army, his death, 53
Liu‐kung‐tao, Island of, 3
Losses of Allies at Tientsin, 296, 297
Lo‐u, 216
Macao, 231;
its past history, 231;
its present decay, 232;
danger to Hong Kong, 233;
passage to, 236;
description, 237–40;
public gardens, 240;
government, 241;
society, 243;
affair with police, 245;
gambling houses, 253;
sights, 254
Madrassis, decay of, 56
Madras Sappers and Miners, 56
Madras Light Infantry, 3rd, 200, 204, 208
Mandarins at Samchun, 222;
corruption of Chinese, 228;
extortion, 291
Manchuria, Russian soldiers in, 45
Map of Kowloon Hinterland, 216
Marble junk, 127
Marble bridge at Summer Palace, 127
Marco Polo, 269
Melville, Lieut., 22nd Bombay Infantry, 208
Mikado, 292
Military Club, Macao, 241
Military College, Tientsin, 295
Moji, 253
Monte Carlo of the East, 232
Moon, Temple of, 70
Mosquitoes, 141
Mount Austen Hotel, 182
Mounted Infantry in Tientsin, 26;
usefulness in Hong Kong, 200
Mud of Pekin, 82
Mutiny in Macao, 242
Mutiny, impossibility of another Indian, 62
Nagoya, electric cars in, 293
Naval Dockyard at Wei‐hai‐wei, 4;
at Hong Kong, 178
Navy, German, 40
Newchwang, Russian church parade in, 45;
railway to, 133
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 293
Ogilvie, Lieut., R.A., 208
Old Kowloon City, 186, 188
Osaka, 293
Outrages on foreigners in China, 287
Pagoda, bronze, 130
Patriotism, want of, 281;
of India, 282
Peak in Hong Kong, 175, 181, 183
Pearl River, 236, 261
Peddlers in Pekin, 102;
in Canton, 261
Peiho River, 9, 19
Peitan, Roman Catholic Cathedral, 95;
siege, 97
Peiyang Arsenal, taking of, 219, 295;
Russian losses at, 297
Pekin, journey to, 65;
station, 66;
description, 71;
walls of, 72;
Tartar and Chinese cities, 72;
Tartar city, 72;
Legations, 78;
mud, 82;
Allied occupation of, 83;
Forbidden City, 87
Pigmy, H.M.S., takes Shanhaikwan forts, 134
Pioneers, 28th Bombay, 57
Police of Macao, 241;
affair with, 246
Police of new territory, British, 213
Polo ground in Victoria, 180
Polo in Hong Kong, 180
Ponies, troublesome Chinese, 116
Population of Canton, 263
Port Arthur, reinforcements from, 46;
retention of, 156
Portuguese colony of Macao, 231;
tribute to China, 232;
police, 246;
Naval Tennis Club, 251
Powell, Sir Francis, R.N., 178
Pottery, 106
Praia Grande, 238
Punjaub Infantry, 4th, in action with Japanese troops, 48;
guarding the railway, 135;
under Lieut. Stirling, D.S.O., 168
Purple or Forbidden City, 73
Puzzle‐balls, Chinese, 267
Quarto del Sargento, 248
Queen’s House, Wei‐hai‐wei, 5
Queen’s Road, Hong Kong, 248
Railways in North China, 133;
from Tong‐ku to Pekin, 13, 65;
to Shanhaikwan, 135
Railway, projected, to Canton, 196
Railway Siding incident, 32
Railway Staff Officers, British, 14
Reformers in Southern China, 206
Ringing Rocks at Macao, 255
Roberts, Lord, 57
Royal Indian Marine Officers, 12
Royal Welch Fusiliers, attack on patrol, 23;
in the Hinterland, 198;
Hong Kong garrison, 200
Rudkin, Lieut, 20th Bombay Infantry, his tact and firmness, 33
Rue du General Voyron, Pekin, 97
Rundell, Lieut., R.E., 208
Russian Army, 44;
troops, 44;
endurance of soldiers, 45;
piety, 45;
courage, 46;
comradeship between officers and men, 47
Russian Railway Staff Officer at Shanhaikwan, 144
Russians seize railways in North China, 133;
seize rolling stock at Shanhaikwan, 146;
dinner party at Shanhaikwan on the cliffs, 149;
a dinner with Russian officers, 154;
causes of dislike to England, 155
Samchun, 207, 212, 214;
visit to, 221;
river, 217
Sampans in Hong Kong, 185
San Paulo, ruined cathedral of, 254
Satow, Sir Ernest, 128
Saunders, Lieut., R.A., 208
Sepoys, opinion of foreign contingents, 61, 164;
loyalty of, 62
Seymour, Admiral Sir Edward, courage in Tientsin, 24;
his advance on Pekin, 30
Shameen, 259, 274
Sharpe, Captain, 3rd Madras Light Infantry, 208
Siberian Army, 45
Siege of Tientsin, 30
Siege of the Peitan, 97
Siege train, disappointment of British, 26
Sikhs, 61
Silks in Pekin, 105
Shanhaikwan, 138;
strategic importance of, 134;
railway journey to, 135;
town of, 146;
Great Wall of China at, 148;
arrival of Japanese Fleet at, 149;
forts at, 151;
Japanese and Indians at, 167
Society in Hong Kong, 190, 192;
Kowloon, 193;
in Macao, 243
Spirit Path, 88
Stanley, abandoned town of, 181
Stirling, Lieut., D.S.O., 4th Punjaub Infantry, 168
Straubenzee, General Sir Charles, 258
Streets of Canton, 263
Streets of Pekin, 75
Summer Palace, 115
Sun Yat Sen, 207
Tai‐mo‐shan, 183
Tai‐u‐shan, 183
Taku, 8, 9;
forts, 9
Taku Road, 23
Tartar City, 72
Temple of Heaven, 67;
Sun, 69;
Moon, 70;
in Forbidden City, 90, 93;
Lama, 107;
Confucius, 111;
Five Hundred Genii, 269;
of Horrors, 272
Terrible, H.M.S., at Shanhaikwan, 155;
gunners, 25
Tientsin station, 15;
concessions, 17;
Chinese City, 17;
Club, 20;
siege of, 30
Tommy Atkins in Tientsin, 27
Tong‐ku, 10, 11;
Allies at, 11;
station, 134
Tong‐shan, 137
Tortures, Chinese, 271
Traders, Chinese as, 294
Transport officers, 8
Transport of Germans defective, 39;
of Japanese, 4;
Indian, 55
Treaty Ports, 258
Triad Society, 207, 216
Tung Chow, 117
Valley, Happy, 179
Vasilievski, General, wounded at Pekin, 118
Victoria, Hong Kong, 173
Victoria Road, Tientsin, 22
Vladivostock, 156
Vodki, 154
Von Waldersee, Count, and our Royal Horse Artillery, 68
Wall, Great, of China, 147
Walls of Canton, 261
Walls of Pekin, 72, 76
Walls of Wei‐hai‐wei, 5
Want of patriotism among the Chinese, 281
Water‐gate of Tartar City, 78;
of Canton, 262
Wei‐hai‐wei by night, 2;
by day, 3;
Chinese village of, 6;
taken by Japanese, 3
Welch Fusiliers, Royal, 79, 85, 198, 200
West River, 276
Whittall, Major, Hyderabad Contingent, 18
Williams, Major, Base Commissariat Officer, 178
Woolley, Captain, I.M.S., 208, 220
Workmen, Chinese, 97
Yamen, Wei‐hai‐wei, 4;
Canton, 262;
Samchun, 221;
British Consuls in Canton, 259
Yangtsun, 66
Yaumati, 186, 209
Yuan Shi Kai, army of, 229
Zaire, Portuguese gunboat, 237;
lands sailors, 242
Zouaves, 43