Having been informed of the proper course to take and that I should do well to register my valuable trade-mark at the central office opened for the purpose in this city, I forthwith set about acting upon the advice tendered, and, for the sake of others who may wish to learn the ropes, I now relate my experience.

All foreigners who come to Peking, either on business or pleasure, reside more or less in the Legation quarter, in and around which are located, in addition to the Legations of the different Powers, the principal hotels, stores, and foreign mission establishments. The Legation area abuts on the Winter Palace and the railway stations, and the famous Waiwupu or “Board of Foreign Affairs” is not far off; the now extensive offices of the Inspectorate-General of the Imperial Chinese Customs, which maintains a large staff in Peking, are equally in this, the southern and business quarter of the Tartar City. Now the Shangpu or “Board of Trade” is not in this quarter, nor could I find anybody to tell me where it was, and so, on the first day of my attempt, had to abandon my prospective visit to the Registration Department as a bad job. However, my intelligent native “Boy” undertook to discover the office and to provide a ricsha to convey me thither.