Some idea can be formed of the wide-spread nature of the trouble when it is known that, by the 10th of June, 600 native converts had fled to this place for protection, Later the rule was modified, and all native refugees were token who came seeking protection.—It is matter of interest to note that, only a week before these Americans wethered here for protection, some who had asked the privilege of sending some trunks and boxes containing their valuables to the Legation were told by their Minister that they were just as safe where they were. And it is a still greater wonder that two weeks later, after the American missionaries and those with them had been fortifying and entrenching themselves for twelve diys—when the re-trent was ordered into the British Legation—not the first sign of a fortification had been begun by any of the Loxations in Peking except a small barricade at each end of Legation Street.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.