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Cantonese, and always released any local braves which they had taken prisoners, occasionally even attacking parties of bandits, and prohibiting all looting, so as to gain the people's sympathies. Consequently no response was made to the offers of reward for the enemies' heads. The people had witnessed the attack upon Canton from the walls; and, when several of the city volunteers were unjustly killed by the Hu Nan braves, the former rushed, to the number of several hundred, into the Examination Hall to take revenge, and drove the soldiers helter-skelter to the Tartar-General's palace. Here they were somewhat pacified by Brigadier Twan's being deprived of his button and feather on the spot. The foreign soldiers also earned the ill-will of the people by giving way to plundering and lust; and as 1,500 of their number did this the day after the peace, on their way down from Square Fort to the Mud Rampart, the exasperated villagers of Sám-yün^[1] surrounded and killed 200 of them, including their General, Pehmeh Hapih,^[2] whose head was as large as a bucket, and whose bâton, orders, and double-barrelled pistol were also taken. The villagers of Sám-shán^[3] attacked and killed another hundred of

1. 三元里
2. 伯麥霞畢 The first two characters are the same as in Bremer, but this name cannot be identified. Possibly it may refer to Lieutenant Hadfield, who, however, was not killed
3. 三山村