deficient quotes

It appears toYour Majesty's slave that we are very deficient in means, and have not the shells and rockets used by the barbarians.We must, therefore, adopt other methods to stop them, which will be easy, as they have opened negotiations.

-Kishen   fl.c.1840
  Report, Mar, to the Chinese Emperor during the1st Opium War,1839^42.

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