A Guangxi fishing boat with nine crew on board had been encircled and brought under the control of five gunboats from another country 另一国. It was being towed behind one of the gunboats towards a port in that country. After nine hours of pursuit, and a one-versus-five battle of wits...
help themselves to a rich man’s grains, and break into a pretty girl’s bed.What a pity I can’t do what they do.But I remember them all right.As for all the rest, it’s just like fishing: to forget one carp is to catch another.” ...
The bitter smoke curled and sunk into the clothes hanging above my hate hollowed head as I cradled a slack boot in my arms like a dead baby. Taking a bitter swig of cask wine from my Mickey Mouse glass I shuddered and looked out of the half open door into my spooky room. The moon...
. In fact, the Chinese never would allow foreign ships to proceed up this channel, and it was at all times so blocked up with fishing-stakes as to offer but litter temptation to their preferring it to the old and better known passage by Whampoa. The Blenheim proceeded to within nine ...