Crossword-Solution: TONKIN 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Upon a table was a large-scale map of Egypt and the Soudan, and another of Tonkin, on which, by the aid of coloured pins, the progress of the different wars was being followed day by day.

But the circumjacent kingdoms, Corea, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Pegu, Bengal, and Thibet, were reduced in different degrees of tribute and obedience by the effort or terror of his arms.

And observe that nothing prevented the old fellow having Bamtz’s throat cut and the carcase thrown into deep water outside the reefs; for who on earth would have inquired after Bamtz? “He had been known to loaf up and down the wilderness as far north as the Gulf of Tonkin.

France was invited to close the Tonkin frontier, but this request also met with a rebuff, and revolutionists and arms were conveyed in an ever-more menacing manner into the revolted province of Yunnan by the French railways.

Chapitre II Environ quinze jours après, comme le ciel se faisait déjà plus sombre à l’approche des pluies, et la chaleur plus lourde sur ce Tonkin jaune, Sylvestre, qu’on avait rapporté à Hanoï, fut envoyé en rade d’Ha-Long et mis à bord d’un navire-hôpital qui rentrait en France.