EXECUTION OF A BOXER BY THE FRENCH 28 PUBLIC GARDENS AND GORDON HALL IN THE VICTORIA ROAD, ENGLISH CONCESSION 28 FRENCH COLONIAL INFANTRY MARCHING THROUGH THE FRENCH CONCESSION, TIENTSIN 38 GERMAN OFFICERS WELCOMING FIELD‐MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEE AT THE RAILWAY STATION, TIENTSIN 38 UNITED STATES CAVALRYMAN 51 GERMAN AND INDIAN SOLDIERS 56 FIELD‐MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEE REVIEWING THE ALLIED TROOPS IN PEKIN 68 A STREET IN THE CHINESE CITY, PEKIN 72 FRONT FACE OF THE DEFENCES OF THE LEGATIONS 78 GROUNDS OF THE BRITISH LEGATION, PEKIN 107 A STREET IN THE TARTAR CITY, PEKIN, AFTER HEAVY RAIN 127 THE MARBLE JUNK 127 THE CANGUE 269 [Illustration: Plan of Pekin. Gates. 1. Chien Mên Gate. 2. Tung‐Chi Gate, attacked by the Japanese. 3. Ha‐ta‐man Gate. 4. The Water‐gate, a tunnel in the Wall between the Tartar and Chinese cities. By this the Indian troops entered the Legations. 5, 5. Nullah draining the Tartar City. 6. The English Legation. 7. The Japanese Legation. 8. The Russian Legation. 9. The American Legation. 10. The Hotel du Nord. 11, 11, 11. Ha‐ta‐man Street. 12. The Temple of Heaven. 13. Temporary railway station. 14. Railway line passing through a breach in the Wall. 15. The Temple of Agriculture, occupied by the Americans.] THE LAND OF THE BOXERS CHAPTER I FROM WEI‐HAI‐WEI TO TIENTSIN Our transport steamed over a glassy sea along the bold and rugged coast of Shan‐tung in Northern China. Ahead of us, a confused jumble of hills dark against the setting sun, lay Wei‐hai‐wei.[1] A German steamer homeward bound from Chifu dipped her flag to the blue ensign with crossed swords flying at our peak. Close inshore an occasional junk, with weird outlines and quaint sail, lay becalmed. On our deck, lying in easy‐chairs, were a dozen officers of various branches of the Service, all bound for Pekin. Some were fresh from South African battlefields, others were there whose soldiering had been done in India or in Burma.