In the sketches I send you, taken on the spot, I have illustrated (says our artist) the leading events of the past fortnight. The first is, “The Return of the Avengers.” They have been destroying, looting, and burning, and are loaded with all manner of property, and all are delighted with their morning’s fun, as everything in the fighting or destroying line is humorously called. You see the creek is not very large; and from the edge the Braves threw their rockets at the houses where the sailor and the China boys are standing on … (The Illustrated London News, Oct. 9, 1858, p. 335)

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from “Sketches in Canton.”