The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-10-03
claIsEsE An sAILoBs AND SOLDIERS.

nas employed the Cinnamon reg.
ularly ON board his ship In various
capacities. To speaking Of the char
acteristics OF the Chinese when afloai,
he said yesterday that they are uneA-
celled as tiremen on board steamers.
They worx twelve hours out OF twen-
iy-four In the stekeholo, where tho
temperature averages over 1909 con-
stsntly. The labor OF shoveling coal
u very severe. As seamen on deck
aod alofk They are not 80 good. They
have the physical strength to pull on
on rope, but they are not sailors.
"lIow will they compare With
Fronchmen In tha, respect?" was
asked.
"They are not al good sailors, but
they have greater endurance"
"Have they any piuck?"
"Plenty OF II In defending them.
selves about decks. The white sail
ors do not impose on them aboard
ship. They can t'ke their owa part
every time. II you compare them ~
this respect with Frenchmen should
say In n stand up dght the Chinaman
would knock out his opponent. But
when you come 10 man q ship with
Chinese and expect them TO make a
first-cIass crew, you find yourself in
bad predicament. The Chinese na-
Wy has 10 show whatever against the
French. Their navy Is composed of
two classes OF ships, the Iron steamers
and the junks. The Junks are well
represented by the pictures you nave
seen In books Of travel, They are oil
armed With six or eight guns each,
bat That can they do? 81 far they
have served as collins for their crews,
who were drowned after they
had surrendered. Many OF tho Iron
steamers were built In England. They
were constructed on excellent princi-
Piles, and are very fine ships They
are armed with heavy modern guns.
White men were engaged 10 train the
crews. But with all that tho ships
and the crews nre not a match for the
great irocclads Of the French feet
The number OF iron steamers Ia the
Chinese navy Is very large. They
have launched six or eight guuboat-
themselves at Shanghai the past year
TO my knowledge. These brats we're
buli under the direction of European
andl American naval architects
They are first-clas- Il their kind, bat
they are too small. China mas no hope
ut sea-"
care there many white man among
the crews
"No. They have never htd more
than three or four to u ship, say n
master, chief officer, aud n gum r.
These have been gotten rid of rapid
ly the past year."
"what do Chinese sailors look
like"
The captain called TO a passing Of
flcer.
"Send one Of the Cinnamon here"
he said.
Soon round.faced Celestial, cloth
ed IS II Just from q laundry, came
trotting along and stoppedIat the door
Of t,o chart room, where he smiled
very cheerfully and saluted by bob
bing his head down and punch ne
his right fore fioger up past the brim
Of blue cloth cap. Then he stood
still, with his knees and toes turned
In, his hands limp, and with the
knuckIes TO the front, and his shoul-
ders crowdlng his lungs very hard.
The captain laughed. The spectacle
was comical
care all chinese sailors like that.
"He Is q very good Chinaman
Kong AsIng can give any white mar
on the ship good tussIe II forced L
It."
| You have seen the Chinese troops
ayes. They are uniformed In the
hues Of the rainbow, besides black
and white. Imagine one hundred
laundrymen In scarlet blouses ant
royal, purple trousers drawn up,in line
adjoining them company In pure
white, then a company Ia brIgh
green, and.then one in light blue, and
you have Chinese regiment. Wher
they march theyslfft up their feet like
cats In the snow. But in spite o
these pecullarIties, they Will make.I
warm for the French on shore. Theil
number Is legion, and II their officer'
have profited by all the instruction:
they have received in the last twenty
years, they will make good fight
Judge Of their pluck by what havs
seen OF them. On shore. in the opel
field, they will have spme chance tt
show what they can do. They will
| fght them as thay d singly whel
forced to II. In those miserable junk'
and in the small stetnars no on'
could hope to d. anything but sinl