chase & natural history. His wife had some pet birds of various sorts in a cage but said that the Chinese servants showed no interest or kindness toward pet animals & could not be trusted to feed them. This lack of sympathy seems to be characteristic of the Chinese. At 4:45 we took the train for Peking. Tientsin has a foreign appearance & is similar to the rows of European houses & business shops. There is a British, French, Japanese, Italian & German sections with the streets named in these languages. The R.R. trip up to Peking was over fields of the millet with number or flooded fields at intervals. We reached Peking at 8 p.m. We went to a Ueagoo fit, Hotel near the station &