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[[underline]] Chapter XV. [[/underline]] 322.

being taken by [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] sudden storm.  On April 19th the "Allies" occupied Peking; but owing to the firm stand taken by the representatives of the Powers, there was, greatly to the disgust of the successful Shantung troops, conparatively little looting or violence.
  Although we regretted the withdrawal of Marshal Fêng's soldiers (for they had been orderly and well-behaved), yet we thought that the change in Governments should facilitate our efforts; for many of our old friends, with whom we had previously negotiated and who therefore had a better understanding of what we were trying to do, now came back into power, while several individuals who had been most active in opposing us either fled the country or else sought safety in the Legation Quarter or in the Foreign Concessions of various Treaty Ports.  At the moment, however, no one believed the war really over; and in the prevailing turmoil and uncertainty there was nothing that we could do in North China in the way of archaeological field-work.

[[underline]] Dr. Li contracts Typhus. [[/underline]]
  To make matters worse, on May 5th Dr. Li, whom I was planning to send back to Shansi that spring, was stricken with typhus and pneumonia. I at once had him taken to the P. U. M. C. (the "Rockefeller Hospital"), where he received the best of care, at the Freer Gallery's expense.  He was in a serious condition and quite delirious wh[[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]]^[[e]]n Mr. Tung and I went there to see him that afternoon.  The next day, however, his doctors told me that he had better than an even chance of recovery.  The Chinese seem, indeed, to have developed a certain resistence to typhus; for the late Dr. Davidson Black told me at this time that the mortality among them rarely rose above 8% or 9%, though among foreigners resident in China it reached about 50%.