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." We all know how
he went, how he was shot in the face by a Japanese fanatic, the
ball lodging under the left eye, where it remained a memento
which he carried to the grave. We all know how he recovered from
the wound, and how because of his sufferings he was able to
negotiate a better treaty than he could otherwise have done. Then
he returned home, and only "the friendship of the Empress and his
own personal sufferings saved his life," says Colonel Denby, for
"the new treaty was urgently denounced in China" by carping
critics who would not have been recognized as envoys by their
Japanese enemies.
In 1896 he was appointed to attend the coronation of the Czar at
Moscow, and thence continued his trip around the world. Never
before nor since has a Chinese statesman or even a prince been
feted as he was in every country through which he passed. When he
was about to start, at his request I had a round fan painted for
him, with a map of the Eastern hemisphere on one side and the
Western on the other, on which all the steamship lines and
railroads over which he was to travel were clearly marked, with
all the ports and cities at which he expected to stop. He was
photographed with Gladstone, and hailed as the "Bismarck of the
East," but when he returned to Peking, for no reason but
jealousy, "he was treated as an extinct volcano." The Empress
Dowager invited him to the Summer Palace where he was shown about
the place by the eunuchs, treated to tea and pipes, and led into
pavilions where only Her Majesty was allowed to enter, and then
denounced to the Board of Punishments who were against him to a
man
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