344 FORM OF PASSPORT. Chap. XXI. 
CHAPTER XXI. 
Leave Tien-tsin for Peking —My passport — Mode 
Carts and wretched roads — Hotel at Tsai-tso 
Hoose-woo, Nan-ping, and Matao — Hotel at Cl 
Poor accommodation — Moderate charges — App 
country — Crops and cultivation — Mountains in 
Walls and ramparts of Peking — Foreign emb 
Legation - Medical missions — Chinese observatory — Views from 
Having received permission to visit Peking from 
his Excellency the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, Her 
Majesty’s Minister at the Chinese Court, I left 
Tien-tsin for that place on the 17th of September. 
A passport, written in Chinese and English, and 
signed by Her Majesty’s Consul, was necessary 
before I could set out on this journey. As the 
passport system in China is something new, here 
is the English portion of the one with which I 
was furnished : — 
Passport No. 53. 
British Consulate, 16th Sept. 1861. 
The undersigned. Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul at 
Tien-tsin, requests the Civil and Military Authorities of the 
Emperor of China, in conformity with the ninth article of the 
Treaty of Tien-tsin, to allow , a British subject, 
to travel freely, and without hindrance or molestation, in the 
Chinese Empire, and to give him protection and aid in case of 
