Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . amily. Here is a people who never drink cold wraterbecause they attribute it to a malignant influence. Neither willthey eat birds or fish supposing them to be unclean. Wizardsthrive everywhere. They it is who are appealed to when the flocksare attacked by disease, when the rain does not come, when the sickare to be healed or when it is necessary (as it often is
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . amily. Here is a people who never drink cold wraterbecause they attribute it to a malignant influence. Neither willthey eat birds or fish supposing them to be unclean. Wizardsthrive everywhere. They it is who are appealed to when the flocksare attacked by disease, when the rain does not come, when the sickare to be healed or when it is necessary (as it often is) for thehealthy to be stricken by disease. The people engaged at differentperiods in the building of the Great Wall suffered much. Near one of the breaches stands a temple. This temple com-memorates a legend, which illustrates the sufferings of thoseengaged by the Emperor Tsin on the construction of the woman found the body of her husband by the wall. He hadperished from his sufferings while engaged at the work. Shedashed her head against the wall which immediately fell and shewas buried by the side of her husband. The inscription on thetemple reads : This woman is venerated, but the Emperor Tsin is COLLECTING THE ANNUAL TRIBUTE FROM THE MONGOLIAN TRIBESIN MANCHURIA: THE CHIEF SOURCE OF LI-HUNG CHANGS REVENUE
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