[120] Two Years in Ava, pp. 262 sqq. This most interesting work seems freer from prejudice than many of its more assuming brethren.
[121] I am chiefly indebted to Malcom, vol. i. p. 308 sq.
[122] Pages 89-94; but see also Malcom, l.c.
[123] Travels in Tartary.
[124] Malcom, vol. i. p. 315 sq.
[125] Encyclopædia Metropolitana, s.v. Buddhism, p. 61.
[126] Lib. ii. cc. 86-90.
[127] I am indebted to an account by Mr. Carey in Asiatic Researches, vol. xvi. p. 186 sq.
[128] Ava, vol. ii. p. 127.
[129] The Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 93. I may here take occasion to remark, that the author of India in Greece, Mr. Pococke, to whose enthusiastic labours I would do all the justice in my power, has not, in any part of that work, acknowledged the manifold obligations under which he lies to the author of the Anacalypsis. I make this remark more in self-defence than otherwise, for, upon my attention having been lately turned to Godfrey Higgins’s work, I there found my own theory of the population of America anticipated, though not worked out in the manner it might be done. I must own this, as I am anxious to avoid the imputation of plagiarism. However, I find myself amply corroborated in some of my own researches; but the writer’s whole feelings merge into a love of every kind of mystical foolery that man has ever imagined.