FOOTNOTES
[1] Whigham’s “Manchuria and Korea,” pp. 117-119, 153, 49.
[2] This wise policy has been consistently carried out ever since. In 1878 there was not a single Manchu governor or viceroy of any of the eighteen provinces of China. (Ross, p. 566.)
[3] When it was made known at the opening of the hospital that more furnishings were required, many gifts, both in money and requisites, were at once contributed, while two merchants told the doctor to apply to them for money as it was needed, which he did several times till the hospital was completed.
[4] Dr. Arthur Smith, the well-known authority on Chinese customs, told me that the reason for the non-burial of children in China is due to the fact that they are not recognised as an integral part of the family till after marriage. Consequently it is not uncommon to marry them after death, in order to be able to give them an adopted son to perpetuate the family, and to offer worship at the ancestral shrine. In one case of which he knew, the corpse of the bride was carried with great pomp to the village where the bridegroom had lived, and they were both buried together.
[5] Kûfic is the name given to the characters in which the Koran was originally written; it ceased to be used after the tenth century.
[6] Hakluyt Society’s Publications, “The Voyage of Friar William de Rubruquis,” p. 166.
[7] Samarkande la bien gardée, by Durrieux and Fauvelle, p. 183.
[8] Arnold’s “Preaching of Islam,” p. 185.
[9] See “The Heart of Asia: a History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times,” by F. H. Skrine and E. D. Ross.