[483] Huc, L’Empire Chinois, t. ii. p. 258.

[484] Milne, Real Life in China, p 161.

[485] Burckhardt, Hist. Univ. des Voy., t. xxxi. p. 148.

[486] Burckhardt, Hist. Univ. des Voy., t. xxxii. p. 148.

[487] Sonnerat, Hist. Univ. des Voy., t. xxxi. p. 349.—Ibid., Laplace, t. xviii. p. 433.

[488] Lecky, Hist. of European Morals, vol. ii. p. 280.

[489] Domenget, Institutes de Gaius, sec. 63.

[490] R. Cubain, Lois civiles de Rome, pp. 188, 189.

[491] Domenget, loc. cit. sec. 63.

[492] R. Cubain, loc. cit. p. 188.