China and the West

London, Jack. The people of the abyss. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1903).
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He had been through the "First War in China," as he termed it; had enlisted with the East India Company and served ten years in India; was back in India again, in the English navy, at the time of the Mutiny; had served in the Burmese War and in the Crimea; and all this in addition to having fought and toiled for the English flag pretty well over the rest of the globe…
There is a Chinese proverb that if one man lives in laziness another will die of hunger…
Mathias of Dargai, Dixon of Vlakfontein; General Gaselee and Admiral Seymour of China; Kitchener of Khartoum; Lord Roberts of India...