New contracts have been made with chair-bearera and carriers, with the local tipao as middlemen. The affable Captain 3x in command of the soldiers, hxs built a house at the Grand Stairway, and declares that he will continue hix vigilance The Wukang magistrate BRLH2gz has issued the most satisfactory proclamations and personally promises to suppress any sort of disorder. It is due to these two men to say that during the wild rumours last summer and even when Prince Tuan's sanguinary decrees came out, there was not one foreigner hurt, although it was well known that the high Provincial authorities would have been pleased with a general massacre. While it is impossible to go behind the scene for to look into the hearts of the Chinese tat this place, it is certainly a good omen for the future that these men have before, during, and since the Boxer uprising held firmly to their promises to protect all foreign lives and property. I found the people polite, respectful and apparently eager for the return of the visitors.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.