Kite

an armed brig of the British, which at the time of the First War in 1840, got wrecked near Chapoo. Several survivors, including the wife of the sailing master, were taken by the Chinese, loaded with leg-irons 18 lbs. in weight, and put in cages IMG:p286_30.png:Chinese characters high. They were thus carried some days' journey to Ningpo, and were afterwards kept as prisoners from September till the next February. SeoTT: Narrative of a Itecent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite; 1841.