. China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook . changed their minds and took us over. *The first city we came to south of the river wasChang-chou. The Magistrate here was bitterly anti-for-eign, and said had we only arrived twenty-four hourssooner he would have had the pleasure of killing us orders were to allow no foreign devil to escape, butthe Empress-Dowager had taken pity on them, and hehad just been instructed to have them all sent as pris-oners into Hupeh. Accordingly, from this
. China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook . changed their minds and took us over. *The first city we came to south of the river wasChang-chou. The Magistrate here was bitterly anti-for-eign, and said had we only arrived twenty-four hourssooner he would have had the pleasure of killing us orders were to allow no foreign devil to escape, butthe Empress-Dowager had taken pity on them, and hehad just been instructed to have them all sent as pris-oners into Hupeh. Accordingly, from this point we weresent on across Honan, from city to city, as prisoners, bythe Yamens, some in carts and sometimes mounted on thehard wooden pack saddles of donkeys. For food theygave us bread and water, and nowhere showed us anykindness till we reached Sin-yang-chou, the last city inHonan. Here we were no longer treated as prisoners,and here we met with the Glovers, from Lu-an, who hadarrived there after a similar journey. The Hupeh Mag-istrates were exceedingly kind. At the first city, Ying-shan, we were supplied with food and clothing and kept. 120 CHINA AND THE BOXERS. in the Yamen five days, as the road south was blocked bysoldiers proceeding to Peking, whom it would not besafe to meet. The Ying-shan native Christians alsosought us out and showed us great kindness, as they alsodid at the cities of Teh-ngan, Yun-mung and E. J. Cooper died at Ying-shan of the injuries andhardships undergone, and her body was brought to Han-kow for burial. Airs. Glover was confined a few daysafter their arrival at Hankow. The child was dead, andin a short time she, too, passed over the river, and is withher blessed Lord. Thus ended at Hankow, on the 14thof August, a journey of fifty days duration, of which thewonder is that a single one survived to tell the tale. The Rev. Father Jeremiah was delivered in a mostmarked manner. His station was at Pa-shan, life was saved by an
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