Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Shunyi trip with W F Collins Thursday Sept 8 Left Peking at 10 p.m. on Pui-Hoan for Friday Sept 9 Cheng - Chow and arrived on Friday at 4:30 p.m., met by Q. Denham & Sat. Sept 10 P. Old Co. & stayed with him overnight. This morning while we passed the station a local train pulled in from Peking. Among the passengers were a party of Chinese - a small, disheveled looking old man, a dozen women & several children, as they alighted on the platform with all the confusion inevitable whenever a Chinese family travels, the crowd went through the air in excited tones, "It is Prince Train". And indeed it was the famous old Boxer leader himself who recorded this episode to Chinnis Truchertland. We were hearing then one of its last echoes of the Boxer rebellion in the dark days of 1900, when the revolt failed and the foreign governments presented their bills for settlement it involved the expropriation of some of these leaders and the permanent exile of others. Prince Tuan, because he was a member of the Imperial family, re- tained his head but was sent into exile. For years he remained in Imberthan, but in returned to