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" Their intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as do also the coolness and calmness of their disposition. Physically they are on the average not so strong as Europeans, but considerably more so than... "
Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China - Page 32
by James Dyer Ball - 1893 - 501 pages
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The "ever-victorious Army,": A History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt.-Col ...

Andrew Wilson - 1868 - 466 pages
...modern warfare, as do also the coolness and calmness of their disposition. Physically they are on an average not so strong as Europeans, but considerably...amount of fatigue, whether in a temperate climate or in a tropical one, where Europeans are ill-fitted for exertion. Their wants are few ; they have no...
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The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government ..., Volume 2

Samuel Wells Williams - 1882 - 812 pages
...daring bordering upon recklessness in time of war. Their intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as...through a vast amount of fatigue, whether in a temperate cUmate or a tropical one, where Europeans are ill-fitted for exertion. Their wants are few ; they have...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 35

1894 - 1096 pages
...intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as does also the coolness and calmness of their disposition....the East ; and on a cheap diet of rice, vegetables, salt-fish, and pork, they can go through a vast amount of fatigue, whether in a temperate climate or...
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CHINA IN TRANSFORMATION

ARCHIBALD R. COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 464 pages
...intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as does also the coolness and calmness of their disposition....temperate climate or a tropical one, where Europeans are ill fitted for exertion. Their wants are few; they have no caste prejudices, and hardly any appetite...
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China in Transformation

Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1898 - 432 pages
...intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as does also the coolness and calmness of their disposition....temperate climate or a tropical one, where Europeans are ill fitted for exertion. Their wants are few; they have no caste prejudices, and hardly any appetite...
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China in Transformation

Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1898 - 426 pages
...intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as does also the coolness and calmness of their disposition....temperate climate or a tropical one, where Europeans are ill fitted for exertion. Their wants are few ; they have no caste prejudices, and hardly any appetite...
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China

Demetrius Charles Boulger, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1898 - 558 pages
...remembering facts render them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as do also the coolness and the calmness of their disposition. Physically, they are,...temperate climate or a tropical one, where Europeans are ill fitted for exertion. Their wants are few; they have no caste prejudices and hardly any appetite...
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China

Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1898 - 556 pages
...warfare, as do also the coolness and the calmness of their disposition. Physically, they are, on Ifhe average, not so strong as Europeans, but considerably...temperate climate or a tropical one, where Europeans are ill fitted for exertion. Their wants are few; they have no caste prejudices and hardly any appetite...
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China

Demetrius Charles Boulger, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1901 - 572 pages
...remembering facts render them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as do also the coolness and the calmness of their disposition. Physically, they are,...and, on a cheap diet of rice, vegetables, salt fish dnd pork, they can go through a vast amount of fatigue whether in a temperate climate or a tropical...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 35

1894 - 1074 pages
...intelligence and capacity for remembering facts make them well fitted for use in modern warfare, as does also the coolness and calmness of their disposition....the East ; and on a cheap diet of rice, vegetables, salt-fish, and pork, they can go through a vast amount of fatigue, whether in a temperate climate or...
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