[40] Journal of the Roy. Geog. Soc., 1874. Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. I., pp. 263-268. Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. I., p. 134. Gerbillon, Mémoires concernant les Chinois (Astley’s ed.), Vol. IV., pp. 701-716. Journal Asiatique, Ser. II., Tome XI., p. 345. Huc, Tartary, etc., Vol. I., p. 34, 2d ed., London.
[41] Sir G. L. Staunton, Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. 2 vols. Lond., 1796.
[42] Annales de la Foi, 1844, Tome XVI., p. 421.
[43] Sketches of China, Vol. I., p. 257.
[44] Chinese Repository, Vol. IV., pp. 308-335. W. H. Medhurst’s China, chaps. xv.-xix.
[45] Richthofen, China. Band I. S. 68. Rev. Arthur Smith, Glimpses of Travel in the Middle Kingdom. Shanghai, 1875.
[46] The curious reader can consult the article by Mayer, in Vol. XII. of the North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society’s Journal, 1878, for the meaning of these various objects.
[47] Five Years in China, Nashville, Tenn., 1860. See also Voyages of the Nemesis, pp. 450-452, for further details of this city in 1842; the Chinese Repository, Vols. I., p. 257, and XIII., p. 261, contain more details on the Pagoda.
[48] Travels in China.
[49] Capt. G. G. Loch, Events in China, p. 74.