GOVERNMENT 261 



disturber of the public peace and may cause 

 much annoyance and trouble to a foreigner 

 travelling through or shooting in his 

 district. It is, therefore, important for the 

 shooter, should he have real trouble with 

 the natives, to ascertain the temperament of 

 the magistrate and thus be prepared to 

 approach him through a channel that will 

 conciliate him, or an agency he fears. 



If the shooter should be shooting in the 

 interior, some distance from his consular 

 representative, he ought to go at once, in the 

 event of trouble, to the district magistrate, 

 and in a friendly and pleasant manner 

 inform the magistrate of the exact nature 

 of his trouble. And, in this connection, I 

 will state that I have never met a magistrate 

 in China who was not ready to listen 

 attentively to any statement I might have 

 to make, and as ready to redress any wrong. 

 I recall with pleasure the occasion when I 

 was shooting more than two hundred miles 

 from any open port, and could not use the 

 paper money I had, and a magistrate 

 provided me with the amount I needed in 

 silver. I know that some of the troubles 

 between foreigners and natives are provoked 

 by the foreigner, and there are others that 



