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MR. WEATHERBE AMONG THE pointed at me and he seemed to be talk

BRIGANDS

At Talifu I was much interested in ing over his shoulder with someone be getting first hand information of what hind him whom I could not ace. From transpired in the brigands camp after THE ESCAPE DISCOVERED.

the first I hail never stopped in my slow my "departure, I have already relatel PRIEST CAPTURED AND HELD progress for had I more than glance that there was with me in captivity a

AS "HOSTAGE.

at the figure but I was the whole time young soldier, who had formed part of acutely conscious of every thing that the original escort, when I was taken, "Below Mr. Weatherbe continues his passed within range.

and that one, Chino, the Chine cook thrilling narrative, relating the events. Having gained the crest I stopped out from the Mission, had joined us a few following his escape from the bandits and of breath and there, before me, was days before my escape It was cus- the attitude of the bandits when his little tent with half a dozen or more tomary for these two individuals to wait escapo vas discovered:

armed men, "obviously either soldiers or upon me and provide hot water, etc.

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By five o'clock I had negotiated a very bandits who had recently been anldiers, Early on the morning after my sudden precipitous subsidiary gorge and dropped for most of them wore uniforms. The departure they discovered by my down on the little hamlet some 1,000 feet first figure then joined the group, and stuffed Bed; that I had fed in the below, but in this operation I lost my last perceived, with sudden but only partial night and immediately decided to leaes tin of" Brand's," In a hut I found two relief, that he was not my rustwhile the camp themselves, to avoid having "Mingchno" women, who could speak companion of the smiling but pitted

I took the bull by the their throats cut by the briganda. no Chinese, but I managed, eventually, to countenaner. procure from them, a few eggs which they horns and asked if they belonged to the left together, making their way openly cooked in a Sithy broken iron pot, ap. Pingchuan garrisons and they answered for the path through the camp which parently the only utensil in the miserable in the affirmative. After giving

hot water, which I drank greedily, the Tapingtsza. At the last tent, some five establishment. My throat was so dry

i from where I had been sleeping, were led me down to a small village, close by, from the cocaine that I could hardly where the main patrol was billetted, and guards who asked them where they were swallow, but I had taken so much of it there i was received with open arms by going. They immediately answered, To that at the time, I fait little thirat..

an N.CO. in command. He readily the mission to get supplies for the "Ying” It was nearing sunset when I pushed out my sequest to proceed at (foreign official) meaning me! "Ob, all on, and down, into the bottom of the once and volunteered to provide man right,| responded the guards, bring great box-like gorge and by dusk 1 bad with an saimal to ride. This was for us some good things too," and the two reached angther tiny collection of buts, tunate as I could not have walked much continued down the hillside and shortly at the head of some very wet paddy land, further. Instead of making direct for after separated. which extended straight away down the Hsia Kuan as I had intended they said The soldier reached Talitu" the follow-184 canyon to where I could see that it open that they must accompany me to Pinging evening, having caught up with ed some three miles further on, into a chuan, which was their headquarters. I Father Savin a half hour before entering HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION. wide valley of plain Tas people here was not, even then nor in fact for most the town and he must have travelled were also Mingchao and not very friendly, of the afternoons, absolutely certain that almost continuously day and night to no- but I secured from them three more eggs they were not desertors turned bandits, which, after boiling hard. I eat, and or soldiers, in league with my band, but complish the journey in that time.

The other, so he told me, had only drank the bot water, as there was here I was too weary mentally to labour the also only one pot to cook with. Then point and we not out immediately. The travelled by night for the first two days having procured some straw from the toute lay during the whole afternoon and arrived a Talifu by erosing the old man of the house, I lay on my across high sunlit grassland and the day Lake from Wase, getting in to the town 15 mackintosh now dry-and tried to became irning hot. Twice I had to get on the day following my arrival there. sleep. Though utterly exhausted, my off and rest in the shade of a village and He said that he had followed what he

H.M.S. Cicala on the sorry thought must have been my route and it nerves kept me constantly on the qui only just managed to stick rize, and I spent a miserable and sleep-wag till we arrived, about five o'clock in appears that he did at one time actually a

a town came into my tracks, for be was told by less night, my discomfort being accent the afternoon, at Lo Kuan Ying, uated both by the Fermin with which"I in a long fortile, well-watered valley, some na old woman at a wayside ten house, was infested, and by clouds of mosquithree hours from Pingchuan. My food about one day from Pingchuan, that I tous. I had secured a box of Chinese since 5 p.m, on August, 12th (it was now had passed that way, and had sat down matches, and these I kept constantly 5 p.m. on the 14th) had consisted, besides there to rest. This was true.

At the moment of these two leaving the fighting to sen the time as I now began the cocaine and mill-tablets of a few eggs to fear pursuit and wished to leave as only, but here I managed to get some camp the brigands were unaware of my soon as I could see. Finally, at 1:30 am. Chinese cakes and quantities of weak departure but they must have discovered 1 could stand it no longer and I sel Chinese tra, which I consumed as fast the flight almost immediately after, as off by starlight, down the paddy land, as it cooled as I lay on a bench in a tea by 10 am that morning, August 18th, trying vainly, in the dark, to stick to house, surrounded by the entire populathey had arrived at the mission and had the narrow ridges between the rico holds. tion of the village. The soldiers escort taken Pers Degenéve prisoner, accusing I must have fallen sama ten or twelve numbering six, were for pushing on, and him of complicity in my escape. This, times, and on several occasions remained had obtained for me a fresh pony, but of course, was bly first knowledge of the where I fell, for rest, I was dead I protested that I could move no further fact. When I saw Père Degenive some tired. Daylight came suddenly and Eventually they managed to procure a ten days later in Talifu he said that the mercifully, and a little after 3 am I two-man litter in which I was carried brigands, especially the leaders, ware reached a smail half-Chinese village at in to Pingchuan and reached the yamen furious at my escape and at once sent the month of the canyon and at the edge at that town at 9 pm the same evening out about 200 of their members in various of the great plain abors mentioned. It Here, I was most hospitably treated by directions to scour the country side, and was a beautiful prospect, with lightly the magistrato and his friends and given offered a reward of $200 for my recap- wooded hills on either side and thickly bot milk, eggs and fruit. They wanted

ture, dead or alive. On August 15th they cultivated throughout its whole extent, me to rest bere a day or two, but I in

struck camp and set out with their new An' pensional temple on the hillsides sisted on pushing on, and I left at e added to the picturesqueness of the view. a.m. the next morning (August 15th) in Prisoner for Szechuan, evidently haring THE TOWERS." 90, BROADWOOD ROAD,

"THE My voice, I found, was, nearly gone, and a "hun kon" or litter, with an escort granted. Also, by this time, I suspect rooms with Bathrooms, All Modern"-Can-· I rested here in a house till after seven of some 25 soldiers. The way lay over that they were nervous of the large num-et, Garden and Tennis Court With great

difficulty, due to the most villainous mountain truck towards suspicion of the people. I procured the Hsia Kuan. We stopped at midday for ber of troens which were congregating services of 2, lad as a guide-I being un- food, and the chair coolies, who had had the region. On the 18th, they came into the neighbourhood of some 300 able to get a mule or a donkey to ride enough of it by then, took the opportu soldiers of the surrounding" force and

and art on in the general direction nity of bolting. "They tried impressing it taking another route to escape: a con- OUSE on the PEAK, Famished or of Pingchuan, over 120 li away. I had goatherds and other wretched individuals dict, they ran into another body of about H Unfarinated. 6 Rooms, 2 Drying- at first thought of making for Wase on met with on the road, during the after 400 soldiers, on the 17th. The first party rooms, Bath Rooma, Hot and Cold Water Talifu Lake, but had given up the idea ncon, but they wore sorry substitutes for of soldiers, who had followed in pursuit, Newly Decorated and in Thorough Repair

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FOR SALE. and, secondly, that in case of paranit unequal contest of trying to remain in temporarily dispersed and the whole of their mule transport with baggage and Wase would be a spot where the brigands the chair and also abandoned the chair Icot were taken by the soldiers. Also, might try to intercept me. I decided, itself which, being merely a contraption some co of the brigands were said to have TOUSE on the PEAK, over coking South Occupation April therefore, to try a middle course across of bamboo, had collapsed under the been killed, those captured being immed side of the Inland

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"Apply Box No. 1529, immediately killed Father Degenève, but The road lay fairly level with only came space, and I think thas the last this note, which come first into the haziks 1829) sligot rises for some three hours, and thirty it, into Hsia Kuan, was physically of Father Savin, in Talifu, had not then a very steep hill lay in fronty at the ag trying an experience, as any of the arrived there when the battle took place. top of which, so the boy informed me, varied journey that I had had. Relief Five man had been placed with rifles round Father Degenere's malo when the roads bratched to Pingchuan and to Hsia at escape, however, must have been a battle started, but he in some way man-OFFICE ROOMS in 1ST FLOOR of HOLE GROUND FLOOR and BEST to hide Kuan Although I managed to drag strong sustaining force and eventually aged, during the confusion, along at about two miles an hour, on the I obtained an opium lamp from a way among the bushes, and in disclosing him the House, No. 5, DUDDELL STREETINGS level, I could only just manage to climb side coolie Assisted by its faint glimmer, thent. Ho sald that his treatment by

self to the soldiers was nearly shot by 1408] the hills with the full aid of my stick. Tind with a scldier on one side and my the solders was worse than by the Toiling wearily up this last steep inchiue, old ashplant, on the other, I literally brigands. the former refusing even to with frequent rest—the boy had dawdicu staggerti into Hein Kuan at midnight give him a blanket in night although behind to pick mushrooms-I was near- on August 15th, just 71 hours after ichy they not only had all of his things, but ing the crest when suddenly I saw a ing the brigaad camp. T figure to the luft of the track regarding

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mino and the brigands as well. 40FFICES in UNION BUILDING—Oca me from the top, and though I hardlyw dared look a second time I realized that At the British American Tobacco Chiang Shuen), was taken captive and I had rifle in his hands What af Cos establishment, although the Juro- brought in to Talifu by the soldiers and tracted me most was a round, blas lined peans were away, I was most hospitably the stated that Yang had been wounded straw hat which he wore and as I looked received and again given hot milk and in the battle,This I was unable to con again, in a sidelong way, it was with eggs. For the first time in 3 months 1-NC. Daily News. distinct sense of nausen that I recognized, slept on shed, and for the first time p I felt sure, a certain pock-marked guard in more than a month I had a bath who had been my almost costatant attend most refreshing steaming bath--and after ant among the brigands. He had always all what luxury can really approach been a cheerful individual, but now a bath September 2nd, and reached Yunnanfu on sardonic smile wreathed his lips as much Next morning (August 10th) was se to say. Well, you have taken a lot carried on a mountain chair into Talifu of trouble to join us again Besides in- where I rested and recuperated in the Chinese General commanding at Talifu, tanse chagrin my chief foeling was one most bospitable Mission of the CM. for but about 50 of these troops were always of wonder, that, after my extraordinary 15 days before starting for Yunnanfu, about half a day behind us, in charge of

xertions, the brigands had found it on the last stage of an ill-fated journey. their own baggage mules! possible to reach this oxict spot in time I had lost just over 30 lb in weight, La head me off. I observed that he made while guest of the handita, and no threatening motion nor did he move badly needed the rest and attention at his rifle, which by the way was not Talifu.

In company with O. R. Conles, H.B.M.. Consul at Tengyach in Western Yunuso, and two missionaries, we left Talifu on September 16th. We had been supplied with an escort of some so soldiers by the

It was as may be imagined, with an enormous sense of relief that I finally passed under the West gato of the city Yunnanfu on Beptember 16th,

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