(3) From a statement furnished by the Viceroy at Canton it appears that during the year ended the 28th August, 1886, the following purchases of foreign arms were made in Hongkong: 55 Winchester rifles, one breech-loading piece of ordnance, one Whitworth breech-loading piece of ordnance of steel, 620 muzzle-Loading guns, 987 chief-li-ti (2) long rifles, 4 Armstrong mule-loading guns of steel, 1,245 Snider rifles, and 3 pieces of muzzle-loading steel ordnance, Hsii Ching-ch'éng, the Chi-
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