Chinghai
Britishnoun
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Last week another of the Ma clan, once-rambunctious General Ma Puching, peacefully accepted appointment as Commissioner of Reclamation in the dreary swamplands of Chinghai Province near Tibet.
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He kept inflation out of Chinghai; today one silver dollar, worth about one U.S. dollar, will buy 200 eggs or five live sheep.
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Ma's army, about 250,000 strong, has drawn heavily on Chinghai manpower.
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In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance.
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On this it was stormed by the blue-jackets and marines, when the garrison effected their escape into the city, the walls of which were then scaled in two places, and Chinghai was captured.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
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