Last year the Boxer outbreak deprived us of our acens'omad sojourn on these charming hillsides. In lieu of it we had to content ourselves for ten weeks with what Dr. O. W. Holmes cally intro-mural estivation. The daily tire from without diverted our attention from the heat within, so that we scatesly thought of it as one of our hardships.
To make for lost time and come here early in Ju Squiers, the U. Chatgé d'Atfuires, had established" himself and family at a tine temple called the out "mile away 5 and a company of British soldi rs were camped at the foot of this hill; while " number of students and secretaries were distributed among the remaining temples in this vicinity. Two of the "eight grow places,"
nnght_ to say, were destroyed, tayether with a fine pas da, asa penalty for har bouring the Boxers, Never was a puiishment more misplaced. Had the temples been stained wi h Christie blood, the case might have been different; bat to destroy them for something which the priests had no power to prevent has the air of Tue echoes of last year still linger among these villages. From every village we hear the son shots of a night patrol, and we are told that ths patrols who make such a noise with their guns pay a monthly tax to prevent attacks by local banditti. To many cases, the head man or some member of his family has been carried away and held to ransom. One day a supposed bri-zand who had been captured near one of the villages was brought to me for exam-
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