Blonde"] was sunk through the dispositions of the Viceroy Têng T‘ing-chêng [transferred to Foochow on the 6th of February]. He also shipped a number of braves on board trading junks, and attacked the foreign ships at Namoa. For want of wind, these latter were unable to get away, and, having no guns astern, were unable with rifles alone to injure our junks, protected as they were with bullet-proof mantlets of hide. We damaged their sterns, and treated them to a volley of stink-pots and fire-balls, killing several dozen of the barbarian soldiers. [The "Hellas " was attacked on the 22nd of May while becalmed, and all her hands were wounded.] On the wind getting up, the barbarian ships managed to escape. In the sixth moon [5th July 1840] their whole fleet attacked and captured Ting-hai [Chusan] and blockading detachments then swept the coasts of Fu Kien and Kwang Tung. A month later the foreign ships made a sudden attack upon the neck of land behind Macao, but several of their small boats were sunk by our guns, and a score or more of their eyes [officers] and men were wounded. A month later Lin Tsêh-sü, observing a squadron of five ships ["Enterprise," "Larne," "Louisa," "Hyacinth"] off Mo-tau, under Smith's[1] command, sent five junks to sea to annihilate them, each junk carrying 600 men. Captain Ma Ch‘ên[2] happened to engage [Commodore]
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