Further extracts from a collec: tion of old Shanyhai Volunteer Corps documents which have been kindly given us by @ late member of the Light Horse are herewith given.
Damp and age have worn many of the papers which we have had the privilege of examining. One book—about the size of an average bank pass book—is, however, in good condition except for the last page or two which appear to have been dragged through the mud on some far distant occasion. This is the order book of the Corps for 1863, containing the orders issued—always from the Main Guard. Orders appear rather a misnomer. for they were more a series of polite requests. Thus, on September 1863, we read: "Volunteer recruits are requested to fall in at the Main Guard this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock for drill and exercises."
The most interesting order of the lot, probably indicating better than anything else the happy family lines on which Shanghai worked in these days, is the following
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.