The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-14

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were put upon these boats. thirteen on
two and nine on another. These boats
also held nine soldiers of the Ninth ohitec
States infantry. and a non-commissione1
officer, beside. the crews o. .n ,asr Sc,
coolies. formerly Boxers, for all river men
were Boxers. for polling and towing the
heavy barges.
In smother boat were soldiers, our
| guard; in another Maj. Foote, ofncers,
some civilians from the British legation.
| and Miss Condit Smith. who had been
| the guest OF Mrs. Squires. OF the United
| States legation IN Picking; IN announcer
| Capt Brewster some newspaper corre-
| spondents and soldiers. and a marine doc.
| tor, and In stiil another the sick ana
| wounded and conyaiescent marines ana
soldiers from Peking some OF these wers
Picking.
We were Just about to pull OF when an
oficer appeared. gesticulating wildly with
| Have you folks got provisionsr' he
shouted IF not why have you not come
| to the commissiarat to get themT'
SURPRISING that these were re- aecorai n1s
a trifie astonished: but knowing that war
time means confusion. two gentlemen Of
our party went after food. The regular
and coffee. which were supplied upon spe-
cial request.
Dimcult Navfgation.
This done, we were pushed into the
stream. PROFESSIONALLY the parting
guest was swept vigorously on his way
but we did not speed far. for in the open
boaten were ssns snd shss 81 the
remainder OF the coolies only one or two
knew anything about the boat While be
was exclaiming upon this We sailed peace
fully upon sand bank, where we lay for
Lieut.. waldron. Of the Ninth infantry,
was on board with us as passenger,
but he came calamity forward. got the
In the cold river trying to push us on.
but to no avail. Early next morning
Capt: Brewster and his party drifted BY
siwu. wished TO go in his boat, but Capt
Brewster declined stopping his boat 10
let him on, and we secretly rejoiced, for
Lieut.. Waldron had proved himself a
Finally we were pushed on tho bank
and fairly started to run on 4 bank on
an average of every half an hour. The
r river , a. THIS point was low. Great. drifts
and along its side. These drifts were
destitute OF everything save the bare
swollen bodies OF dead Chinese. There
were waving corn fields on every side,
but not even the chirp OF a bird TO break
the stiffness Of the dead floating by and
around us. Every rustic among the
corn was followed by rife shot from
some boat. The track of the great al
lied army was visible on every hand. The
river that had swarmed with bodies Of
Chinese boatmen. now was one great ST.
ience. save for the boats Of soldiers. Rus.
sian. French and Japanese crews all
passed US; Russian speculative. French
valuable 10 each other. and Japanese
friendly = hand waving and "howdy- do
from the Japanese ofSicers.
Relics Of Japanese war.
We could not fail TO notice that while
the Western natives had seized the larg-
ar ~vh lrh Rgad hill
with many stoppages. the Japanese had
every houseboat on the river. The boats
skim the water like birds and we're the
better In the end. Some OF these con-
usually only one Japanese TO manage his
Boxer boat crew. We were amused In
one place to find some Chinese families
living in old boats along the bank These,
one and all. have the flag We had last
seen on every house in Picking, Loyal
Citizen Of Great Japan" showing that
the war won by Japanese Is still fresh in
About four in the afternoon we seemed
hopelessly stuck There was none. nor
had there been any evidence that we were
Of senssy II fact S wsse DE-
poral climbed out OF the water In de-
spair OF ever getting on. the finest little
japanese gentleman came by took us In
sailed into Matou, 70 be Informed that
our convoy was sixteen miles ahead of
us. A message was left for Mrs Wood
ward, of Chicago. Maj. Conger's guest.
who had been one OF the best siege hos
pital nurses. The message was from
Mitchell. our brave gunner. wounded a
day or two before the troops reached
Picking saying that his wound had not
been dressed for thirty-slx hours and that
he feared gangrene would set in.
We had to part from Lieut.. waldron at
Matou. for In order to meet his appoint
ment we had 20 lake tho short wagon cut
from Matou TO Hosiwu. But the Jap
anese still remained with and towed us
safely into the above place The scenery
was unmarried; cornhelds on each OF the
banks At Hosiwu we found that our
friend the lieutenant had telegraphed 10
someone concerning us and as a result
Capt Brewster had been waiting for us
some hours. Here we said good-by re-
luctantly to our japanese friend who had
delayed his own course TO help us alongs
by this time several OF the boys were
having chiils and cramps from their long
hours IN the river They were not over
3 the fatigue Of the march TO Pekinx, but
We wrapped them up as best we could and
gave them OF our scanty store OF medi-
cine. Some OF the women on board could
not eat the bacon and salmon and al Ho-
siwu a Russian officer kindly gave us six