[218a] Gen. xxix., 1–3.
[218b] Gen. xxiv., 19, 20.
[259] This compilation was made in the fourteenth century, by order of Pope John XXII.
[273] At this period there was no French embassy in China, and no treaty in favour of Europeans. All missionaries, therefore, who penetrated into the interior, were, ipso facto, liable to be put to death.
[285] The Thibetians call the English in Hindostan, Péling, a word signifying stranger, and equivalent to the Chinese y-jin, which the Europeans translate, barbarian, probably with the notion of flattering their self-love by the implied contrast.