An officer of the Ponchi, which vessel was, by the way, doing lighter duty over the bar at Taku daring the siege, says that there was a radical change noticeable in the demeanour of the natives at towards Europ: ans. They exhi sid, just the same characts shown by the natives at Taku before the Worts were bombarded. There were the same insolent looks and insulting rem jand generally the spirit of disaffection seemed to have been very deeply rooted.
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