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    • A "CAPITAL" JOKE.
    • A CHINESE PRIZE POEM.
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      Annesley Bay, Dec. 23*7/, 1867. Wonder A...

      take that semi-warlike view of my position , which finds favour understanding with so many of was my that confreres I was . to "When put up I started at the , you best know hotel our at told every me place that we this arrived too was at his " on idea the of mar the ch expedition . " Slopper . has since

      X 5 U . L XUJVV lletS 11 CHI LU 111 CU UUl I J . 1 U 1 C aill J . lt ; u . VJ 11 LUC * "g end ot " native rations , " hanging about to pick up such scraps of The nevvs fact as isthe I can position , and is getting anomalous generally . It in is everybod true I am y' got s way up . in . rather soldier , -like fashion , with an opera-glass slung to my back as " somebod , and a towel y " with round the my natives head . , and But no for doubt all that pass , I did muster not come out here to be shot at , and you quiet people at home no doubt never thought I did . But a Special Correspondent ' s work in this expedition is no joke . Three hundred miles of march amidst communication doubtful with friends the , with shore a chance , as a climax of being ! cut All off honour from all to

      those who can face it—I can ' t . Indeed , I have serious thoughts of coming word back I think altogether he is . riht Slopper . He is s quite decided trulthat , and he upon can write my the " History of Abyssinia g " much say , very better in y , Bedford does Square not , and find that it as hal to f so the interesting " Insect Worl a d subjeqt of Upper out E here gypt , as " he it fore appeared , to let to it him stand at the over British . You Museum must not . mind He is my going say , there ing it - , more but , looking gloomy at in things my life purely ! Never as a ! man of business , I never felt ******* * Just finished dinner . Was interrupted above by several

      young fellows ot the 33 rd , wno asked me to mess with them . Drank the Queen ' s health in champagne , Sir , three times three . What do you think of that ? Not so bad for old Annesley Bay , is it ? This Abyssinian business isn't half bad fun after all . By-the-way , cut out a lot of the first part of this letter . I have forgotten exactly what it ' s all about , but it is rather in the desponding line , I fancy . Of course I shall " go up " with the troops . I think I told you that that atrocious Slopper talked the of turning name of back Englishman . These are abroad the kind , and of get fellows us so little who respected disgrace in the Red Sea ! As to the pen being mightier than the sword —nonsense , that ' s what that is . As Bracer says , it is by the

      sword alone we shall cut coir way to Debra 1 habor ( 1 think that is the place ?) and it is from Debra Thabor ( if that is the place ) that you shall hear , whether he be dead or alive , from Your Own Special Correspondent . P . S . —I open this because it has just occurred to me that what you most require of me is a chronicle of the variotis abuses to which this Expedition must give rise . All I can say is , read the last letter of my friend the Special Correspondent to the hundred Standard ; . vultures What do moving you say over to the the poor , £ 50 droop mules ing dying creatures by the ; camels with their bones coming iv \ through ; water costing twofVft-n / " »^ \\ . + dii \\ -frV ^ civ * nxr f ^ o * T * "i I I An ± / " \ i * * o in v \ /~* T ^^ a ^ 4 * + ¦ v / "k / % * " \ c ? o i *** t imm «•

      MClA ^ v ,, j . j . frj \~ i * iM . jr f ^* ** & m , iiwj . x \ -rx 111 u . 11 * u ^ . iivi L / L . * aob ^ 9 ti wpa amvujg without beds to lie down upon , canvass to cover them , or food to feed them ? What do you say , British taxpayer!—( I feel in better spirits , you see ; that 33 champagne was first-rate )—will British cost taxpayer ^ 20 , 000 , , 000 to this ? What mull , that do you is say to to cost stores , £ 5 , to be , 000 landed , and and no means of landing them ? What do you say to departments all fighting with each other , to an undertaking with no understanding another regular , to British an army Expedition with no ? organisation , in fact , to Talk of the Crimea , and the Afghan affair ?—( by-the-way , we are on the eve of another ) . Why they were mere jokes to tiiie Al- ^ VQeininn fct' hnsinps # *! ' T ^¦ r » vnn 1-nnw tr \ r % wVi v wo s » v «» r \» nf

      b ** l W * + ¦* 1 ^* w *»*»»** * r - * •«»»* ^* •»« w * * — *~ r j ^* >* * ^ « *• \ ^ * * 4 *¦ \ J VS * » A * T If W * - *• •» V * S V 4 b here at all , with a prospect of failure , to say nothing of over-• 1 whelming ( that idea tickles outlay , me before ) , why us , ? instead Do you of spending know , British a few thousands taxpayer 1 music in pro p - e boxes r dip , lomacy cocked — -h that ats , and is to rum say , , you in ma are rbles going , fireworks to spend , t a through ^ 20 , , 000 the comp in an letion Expedition of the I Suez Jealousy Canal . of That French is what influence the L / Ab Egyptians yssinian are " difficulty coming with " means 12 , 000 . Do men you ( whether know also we like , wh y it the or I mot There ) , to -- help you us have all the the whole way ? thing To look in after a nut French -shell . interests Rather . 1 heavy , I dare suy all this , but I picked it up at the mess

      Annesley Bay, Dec. 23*7/, 1867. Wonder A...

      ( before we drank the Queen ' s health)—so depend upon it , it ' s a fact . ******** by I crossed open this cheque once . more The to chiefs beg you are willing not to send to cash me a my play sal -bill ary ,

      If Times supp can lement send , or me a Tomahawk the next remittance cartoon , but in not peppermint a cheque . lozenges you or hair , -pins , as I am told they are as good as an English sovereign in the Upper Kerjoof-Gebhor . Oh ! it ' s a splendid country ! More in my next .

      12 The Tomahawk. [January Ii, 186s .

      12 THE TOMAHAWK . [ January ii , 186 S .

      A "Capital" Joke.

      A "CAPITAL" JOKE .

      There Will Suspect Is Prove Any Is The T...

      there will suspect Is prove any is the that bod a , y as g surprised leasant igantic a sanitary fact failure to measure hear 7 We that us , the in suppose there the Thames face is not every lainl Embankment . reason However to h . , The unp it seemsis not staring inclined to do what p science y enoug had arranged sewage for , it . The , outfall is a great deal too near the metrowas polis contemplated ; too near , in they short would , to enable when the the present tides to plan affect was it as as yet it on paper . The very Embankment itself is terribly after its does not exist £

      much time , and therefore , beyond for isiacktriars the great , Metropolitan Drainage even m mua Scheme . > o and its , hand maiden , ! The whole thing promises to be a failure . In a smaller matter swindle would be the correct term . But large holder things in London never descend is paying to an little exorbitant names ; and rate if for every these house im- - that provements posterity he is . buy It , let is ing him perhaps experience comfort difficult himself , or to something , hit at least on any , with equall satisfactory the y usefu reflection l , way for of punishing the fools—for it is to be presumed that British thick-headedness is somewhere at the bottom of the matterwho have wasted the public money and patience in a bungling iLseniiu 3 it

      may enterpri be worth . une something idea , nowever , here it uoes is : let suggest it then be given a . , a . out forthwith that a London statue will be immediately erected to the memory of everyone distinguishing himself by any notorious bit of insanity in connection with this metropolitan work . Let this be made well known , and we shall hear of no more " mistakes " in the Main Drainage Scheme . If Jenner could only have would had a sli kave ght , done even with so sli him ght one , a susp day icion at Charing of what cross public inoculation gratitude would have slumbered , and the question of compulsory , vaccination never have arisen to trouble the mind of man . t

      A Chinese Prize Poem.

      A CHINESE PRIZE POEM .

      The University Of Nanking Has Lately Hel...

      The University of Nanking has lately held the examination usuall for the y severe Ku Jin ; , seventy or M . A -five . Degree candidates . The died examination by the was hand un of - fortunatel death , or y their , enabled own , to during give the the process "English of Poem torture " . which We won are , the Ku-shu-shin Prize for this year . It shows what great advance has been made in the knowledge of the English language in this most exclusive of countries : —

      BELPHEGOR ; OR , THE HERO OF MANCHURIA . ' An Original English JPocm BY

      KO-FOW-LI-CHOW-CHOP , To which was awarded the Ku-shu-shin Prize for 1857 . ( With Notes by Professor Twang-Chin-Hum . )

      orig history Jvo in al — of nucleus i Manchooria nis roem of the , Chinese which iounded , as Emp on everybod an ire . incident Ginshallur y knows in , the was III early . the ascended the throne of Manchooria B . C . 6027 . Three years after his accession , the Khurds , led by Gadzeuxes , invaded his

      territory , and laid it completely waste , murdering his wife Zedzina ( the pink-eyed gazelle ) ; he himself succeeded in ritory escaping of Cashmere with his infant which son had Bel just phegor been , to annexed the nei by ghb Ginshallur ouring ter- . tion Here being the king constantl and , y his hunted child b lived y the a vindictive life of misery Gadzeuxes and priva from - ,

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 11, 1868, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_11011868/page/2/