Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

Three men two of whom, on the right, are examining a Gatling gun or Mitrailleuse, the breech-block of which lies by the tail of the trunnion. Parts of other weapons on the ground, an empty gun carriage behind to the left, against which the third man leans. A large riveted iron bucket on the extreme right, a pile of cannon-balls behind, a building in the background. The same place as Thomson's negative number 802