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[261.] Ibid.

[262.] Trav., i. 150.

[263.] Ibid., ii. 65.

[264.] Quot. by Penny Mag., 1841, 2d S. p. 436.

[265.] Ibid.

[266.] Ibid.

[267.] Churchill’s Coll. of Voy. and Trav., ii. 23, and Pinkerton’s Voy. and Trav., xiv. 720.

[268.] Trav. in China, p. 159. Cf. Williams’ Middle Kingdom, i. 273.

[269.] Ins. Arch., 63.

[270.] This superstition I have found in no other place.