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Title: 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
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beals, Z. Charles (Zephaniah Charles), 1861-1946
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Publisher: New York, M.E. Munson
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rapethad been built. This parapet had been rebuilt severaltimes, the extent being reduced on each occasion, so thatit tells a plain tale of how the foreigners were graduallydriven back. Ihe British legation had been regarded asthe citadel. Sand bags were piled up in all the windows,and the defenses were of the most minute character. Itis said that these defenses were planned chiefly by Rev.F. D. Gamewell and Lieutenant Colonel Shiba., The spirit of the garrison had never flagged, but theirappearance indicated great exhaustion, the natural resultof protracted anxiety and deficient provisions. The na-tive converts in the British legation often had nothing toeat but grass and leaves; several of them died of starva-tion. I have myself seen many of them since the relief,who appear to be in an almost hopeless condition of ex-haustion. The sudden revulsion from death to life was almosttoo much for human nerves, And there was great joy inthe city. The next day the 7th verse of the 124th Psalm
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THE FLEEING OF THE COURT FROM PEKIN. RELIEF OF PEKING. 103 was telegraphed home by Rev. Mr. Smith, as a summaryof the situation: Our soul is escaped as a bird out ofthe snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken and we areescaped. The loss by death of the allies in entering Peking wasremarkably small, being, all told, under 130 men, or lessthan it cost to take the position at Pei-tsang, and veryconsiderably less than the city of Tientsin. The clearing out of Peking has been finished. Theenemy, consisting principally of the troops of the EightFlags and of the Boxers, have retired, dispersing in alldirections. Our guards for the palace have rescued andliberated the foreign Christians and native converts in other parts of the city. The Empress Dowager and her court made their es-cape from the city through the Western Gate, taking theEmperor along as a prisoner. They left none too soon,for when they were going through the Western Gate theallied forces were coming in the Eastern Gate. Theyke

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