[129] Vide Biographical Note in the [Appendix].
[130] 2nd January, 1909.
[131] Vide the Diary of Ching Shan, [page 259].
[132] Grant Richards, 1901.
[133] Two patriarchial rulers of China (B.C. circa 2300) whose wise principles of government were immortalised by Confucius.
[134] With the Empress Dowager of China (Eveleigh Nash, 1906).
[135] Since the days of the Emperor Ch’ien-Lung, these expenses have averaged some forty millions of taels per annum. Vide “The Times,” special article, 7th Dec., 1909.
[136] The nucleus of this hoard was the money confiscated from the usurping Regent Su Shun in 1861.
[137] An account of his life was given in a memoir published by The Times on the 6th October, 1909.