Excerpt from Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports in China, for the Year 1868 The moment so patiently striven for by the Imperialists. Had at length arrived, and of the insurgents, completely outmanmuvered, many laid down their arms and were taken prisoners, many were slain, and many, I believe, though this re denied by the authorities, warped, and C'usso Tsuso Yii their leader, is reported to have, at this time, committed suicide by drowning. The occurrence of the foregoing events brings us to middle of the month of August, up to which period the sales of Foreign Goods, at Tientsin. Compared most unfavorably with those of previous years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.