General Munthe’s guards, the Chinese protection for the Legation Quarter, patrolled the southern quarter of the city in groups of five.

When General Feng’s army left, there was a sigh of relief. But about this time the Chinese merchants began to consider what should happen if General Feng’s army should be defeated, and chests, trunks, boxes, baskets, chests of drawers—every conceivable kind of a receptacle, was filled with merchandise and taken to the sheltering wings of some foreign friend, in the Legation Quarter. Simultaneously the Chinese began to send their women and children to our hotel for refuge.

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The Legation Quarter: A section of the city where the foreign legations were headquartered, and thus a focal point for foreign visitors and ex-patriots. A map of the Legation Quarter of 1912 is available at

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/peking_legation_quarter.jpg. Back.