Footnotes
[31]
"It is the cudgel that governs China," says Father Du Halde,
"Disc. de la Chine," ii, p. 134.
[32]
Among others, De Lange's account.
[33]
Of the Family of Sourniama, "Edifying Letters," coll. xviii.
[34]
See in Father Du Halde how the missionaries availed themselves
of the authority of Canhi to silence the mandarins, who constantly
declared that by the laws of the country no foreign worship could be
established in the empire.
[35]
See "Lettres persanes,"210.
[36]
See the order of Tsongtou for tilling the land, in the "Edifying
Letters," coll. xxi.
