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ACROSS THE HEART OF CHINA.
carried out by him have been collected by Baber from De Mailla's history of China, and are summarised as follows:—
| Massacred | 32,310 undergraduates. |
| 3000 eunuchs. | |
| 2000 of his own troops. | |
| 27,000 Buddhist priests. | |
| 600,000 inhabitants of Ch'êngtu. | |
| 280 of his own concubines. | |
| 400,000 wives of his troops. | |
| Everybody else in the province. | |
| Destroyed | Every building in the province. |
| Burnt | Everything inflammable. |
Besides cotton yarn, children and young pigs carried in baskets at the end of a carrying-pole, and a little salt, were the only other commodities at all noticeable. I looked anxiously among the small shops and market-stalls for goods of European make, but the nearest approach to foreign articles were matches. These, however, on closer acquaintance, proved to have been made in two local match factories near Ch'ung-k'ing, started in 1894, and given a monopoly in the province for twenty-five years, and were being sold at a few cash a-box of
