'The savages are up again! The treaty recently made, by which peace at any price' was supposed to have been secured, has suddenly collapsed, and the whole Bho-tan tribe of aborigines are hot on the
the rupture was brought about by treachery war-path! The common people assert that on the part of one of the Chinese officials towards two Bho-tans, The official account of the same is that the chi-hsien of Hung-cheng had made two savages prisoners for offences committed against the laws, and confined them in his yamen; but the report is quite silent as to the causes which led to the arrest or the manner in which it was carried out. Which is the true account it is impossible at present to decide, but both parties agree in their description of the nonces, namely levee en masse of the tribes, and a march ist the district city, which was completely invested, The magistrate was summoned to deliver up the prisoners immediately, or the besiegers would proceed at once to attack and sack There Leppened to be few or no soldiers the city, putting every one to the sword.
present at the time; so the hsien, in the exercise of a wise discretion, for which he will probably suffer, however, complied with the demands, and what is more, feasted his assailants plenteously on pork and samshu. The revelries being over, the Bhotans quietly departed, taking the rescued with them, whereupon the chi-hsien Readduarters.. The Governor, who had only promptly reported the whole proceedings to just returned from a rather disastrous campaign on the north-east coast, where, besides being badly beaten he had Jos several guns, as may be imagined was not in the best' temper for receiving such information. An expedition was quickly planned, and troops to the number of five thousand have been sent overland, and by water to Tainanfoo. The transport Haeching has been employed for the last fortnight in making daily trips between Tainanfoo and Lankiao, the nearest port to the scene of operations: each time carrying down as many troops and as much ammunition aa she could take. The force appears o be well supplied with arms of the latest Pockets, on which fatter the governor is said pattern, including a large number of war-to pin great faith. On dit, however, th soldiers are alittle afraid of using them, asin their hands the rockets have hitherto been apt to prove too impartial in their effects, 'o obviate this, as far as possible, a detachment of thirty or forty Cantonese, trained in the use of rockets, have accompanied the expedition. Some of the troops that have come down from the north appear a fine body of men, and seem to have been foreign drilled, But the majority are the
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