New-York tribune., 1903-02-12
PIERRE LOTT IN PEkTNG.
Has Notes on the BOrey- Uprising.

The French Of Pierre Lott. Fy Nyrta L Jones
Illustrated from PhotoS- aphs and Drawings 3y
Jessie =. Jones. l3no. PIP Nj. 10 '-'''i''
Brown x Co
Pierre Lofts impressions Of the recent mill
tarv operations Of the allied nations in ana
about Peking first printed as letters from emma
ia The Figaro" here presented in an aoe-
ouate translation. As aid to Nice-Au'i'liai
POTTER Lott arrived at NinE-Hia after Picking
had fallen and the rescue Of the legations III
been effected. Being sent up the Pei-Ho /,
Pekne in a Chinese craft which he describes as
= little sarcophagus with mating roof ne
made his notes in the brief leisure which ms
duties allowed him. and for the most part in
kiosk of the Rotunda Palace in the torolooeh
city. where he had his apartments AfteT 'h'S
view which fell in the winter, he revisited Ihe
imperial city in the spring 10 represent the al
lairal al the funeral Of General S"arzhot' VINO
was burned to death in the Palace OF the EN-
,-rass Lofts leave was extended 10 enable him
- visit the torns Of the enperors OF the present
dynasty in sacred wood fifty miles southwest
of the city
In this wood twenty miles in circumference
la g,,e bodies of l,llt four en7perors I'M
77ense space is required for the booy OF q ! s2L.
of Heaven. and immense solitary shen0e "i"S'
reign about it
All through the experiences in Picking the re-
ing and the rnurderous advance Of the punitive
,oIYrans Of rescue were everywhere visible The
-5x-e-s were befouled with the dead. wells were
cbolzad with them even the shores or the sacreu
lake Of the Yellow City remained uncleareo-
have = r7andarin's armchair in my junk on
which TO enthrone myself when the sun @ slllleN
and the wind is not too cutting More 5i, nv,
Y I prefer to walk along the shore DONG my
miles in company with our towers VINO PlI,a I
along bending like beasts OF euroen Will We We
rome passed over their shoulders -
-~e often Obliged TO step aside suddenly because
of a dead nan-with one leg stretcheo OUT
across the path,-looking slyly UP al Us
The air was apt 10 be filled with unsaF-
orr odo-s even when not possessed WIN Ihe
,l7iclz and ever present dust which the Mon
solian winds blow across Peking- Al Ilsh' "l-
casional shooting was so common that it hardy
woke the sleepers.
Absolute silence except that from distance
one OF those shots is heard which never 1alls
20 mark the torpor of the night, or CRY VI
distress or alarm: sBirmishes between Euro
1asre N the posts and thieving Cinnamon;
ssntinels afraid Of the dead OF Of the nghI
shooting at a sha2ow.
Lott was able to do more than penetrate INTO
The sacred palace where the Son OF Heaven
whose erlpire is vaster than all Europe" ruled
over four or five hundred million subjects lke d
vague phantom He entered the tomos Seaieo
win wax. inaccessible before the occupation OF
.consecrated inner city which is rather a wood
filed with palaces and temples is occupied oy
the Island Of Jade where 'the big devil STANDS
oh horrible creature that he is He Is of
e-,r,e-hrrnan size, cast il bronze Like ShlNar
god Of death, he dances On dead BODIES; ne nag
-iza or six atrOCious faces whose multiplied
c-r-ius are almost intolerablei he wears q collar
Of skulls and is gesticulating with forty arms
that hold instruments OF torture OF heduS 9S'
cred from their bodies =, 49,,
Sucb is the protecting divinity chosen by the
chinese TO watch over this city, ann pIaceo
high 2 boNe all their pyramidal faleace FOOLS
high aboye all their pagodas ano towers, ds We
.,1 times of faith would have placed the Christ
or the blessed Virgin. 1t Is q tangible synlpoI
Of their profound cruelty, the index OF the III
e1Dicable cleft in the brain OF these peopie
ordinarily so tractable and so gentle, SO open
20 the charm of little children and or Mowers,
r,,IT who are capable all at once of gleefully be-
coming executioners and torturers Of the most
horrible description
Though Lott speaks Of the last days" Of
Picking in the sense that the Chinese stronghold
has lost its old mystery by the violent intrusion
Of European troops, he has a keen realization
Of what China with these fanatic characters
tics may do il 1t awakes from its slumber OF
A thousand years" He has shudder for the
thought OF China abandoning its dependence
on small mercenary regiments and arousing its
sober, cruel. spare, muscular" millions to re-
volt and revenge with the arms Of modern war
Except for some repetition. due TO the collec-
tion OF the letters in book form before the
author could revise them. this account gives
striking and intense impression OF the after
rnath OF the Boxer storm in the small but i'm
portant corner Of China round about the CAPT
tai, with some "reminiscences of the appalling
siege.