Under marching orders : the story of Mary Porter Gamewell . British Legation, Peking. Gate to Bbitish Legation, Showing Fortification andDry Canal Besieged by Frenzied Chinese 157 the ranges witliin the buildings. Stores ofcoal and grain, and deep wells, were prom-ises of future provision. It seemed as if Godhimself had prepared this fold for hisChinese flock. Meanwhile the American missionarieshalted within the shade of the United StatesLegation, where Mrs. Squiers, wife of theFirst Secretary, served an informal luncheonfor the entire company. After two hoursparley, it was decided that the Am
Under marching orders : the story of Mary Porter Gamewell . British Legation, Peking. Gate to Bbitish Legation, Showing Fortification andDry Canal Besieged by Frenzied Chinese 157 the ranges witliin the buildings. Stores ofcoal and grain, and deep wells, were prom-ises of future provision. It seemed as if Godhimself had prepared this fold for hisChinese flock. Meanwhile the American missionarieshalted within the shade of the United StatesLegation, where Mrs. Squiers, wife of theFirst Secretary, served an informal luncheonfor the entire company. After two hoursparley, it was decided that the AmericanLegation was too close to the wall to be asafe place for women and children, and thatthe British Legation was the least exposedarea. Consequently the weary wanderersfiled into the courts already crowded with amotley throng of people and their were Jesuit priests, French Catholicsisters, Legation students, merchants, tour-ists, and missionaries—as diverse a gather-ing as ever before in history inhabited sixacres of earth. Boxes, bundles, trunks, baby,carria
Size: 1796px × 1391px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorh, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmissions
