class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Part III—The Sack

      I     The Palace     307 II     The Sack     327 III     The Sack Continues     354 IV     Chaos     370 V     Settling Down     374 VI     The Forbidden Fruit     377 VII     The Few Remains     397 VIII     The Palsy Remains     412 IX     Drifting     420 X     Picking Up Threads     424 XI     The Impossible     428 XII     Suspense     434 XIII     Still Drifting     436 XIV     Punitive Expeditions     438 XV     The Climax     440 XVI     The End     443

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FOREWORD

The publication of these letters, dealing with the startling events which took place in Peking during the summer and autumn of 1900, at this late date may be justified on a number of counts. In the first place, there can be but little doubt that an exact narrative from the pen of an eye-witness who saw everything, and knew exactly what was going on from day to day, and even from hour to hour, in the diplomatic world of the Chinese