Piking hoping to [illegible] his end few days in the capital. But the Foreign Legations could not allow this violation of the treaty, it would cause too much 'loss of face'!! S. Prince Tuan was notified that he would have to return to Peking. He immediately became ill - the favorite excuse of official China when it does not wish to comply with a command - severally sent to a hospital. The Legation insisted that he be put under the care of foreign doctors, and made against his will. Probably very few individuals really with Diarrhea Ill but Prince Tuan certainly was too loth to recover. At last (at the 1st day for a number of months later) at last the doctors insisted that he was well enough to travel, and he had to return to Peking. We saw him in the first stage of his long journey. He was rather a pathetic figure as he proceeded at the head of this shabbily procession of women children and servants, by the Chinese hotels across the square from the opposite the station. One of the babies [illegible] tiny straw hat and as I stopped to take rescue it from the feet of his speaking cooler, my own hat dropped off directly in front of him: He stopped and