After landing, Prince Chun was very soon Hinside his carriage, drawn by a pair of horses with trappings of Imperial yellow. A guard of Frenca police gave the salute, and the carriage started ata slow pace for the bridge over the Yangkingpang. But progress was slow. A huge crowd blocked the wey. Chinese and foreigners crowded round in one close, unbroken mass, and Prince Chun was stared at and commented on as he never had been before in his life. School children of all sorts, sizes, and races glared in upon the hapless son of Chinese royalty, and laughed and fired off facetious comments upon pearance. Coolies bored their teeth with expansive grins and spoke appreciatively of the returned wanderer, who looked more nervous than when' he refused to kowtow to Kaiser Wilhelm. Eventually, by dint of forcible language and threatening attitudes, the guard of native soldiers forced a way through the excited, gesticulating mob, and the carriage swept aver the" brid; into the English settlement. Here it was joined by an escort of mounted Sikh policemen under Sergeant Spottiswoode, and, watched by thousands of interested spectators, passed down the Bund, up waking Road, the Chinese shops on either side of which thoroughfare were gay with national -fags, and so to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs in Bubbling Well Road.
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