Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Sir Halliday Macartney K. C. M. G: Commander of Li Hung Chang's Trained Force in the Taeping Rebellion, Founder of the First Chinese Arsenals, for Thirty Years Councillor and Secretary to the Chinese Legation in London
HE last time I saw my kinsman and old and trusty friend Sir Halliday Macartney was on the zand of April, 1906. Hearing that I was spending my Easter holidays at Dumfries with my daughter.
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