The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . ession of gambling—Corruption of mandarins—Improvement in Manchuria—Poyarkoff explores the Amur—Russiannavigation prohibited on the Amur—Expeditions of the Russians—Mouravieff—IgnatiefY— Russian annexations—Hopes of China and Russiain regard to Manchuria. Shunchih, the son of Tai Tsung, reigned for seventeenyears, and died in 1661, at the early age of twenty-three. From the death of the Eegent, which occurredabout ten years before, lie had commenced admi
The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . ession of gambling—Corruption of mandarins—Improvement in Manchuria—Poyarkoff explores the Amur—Russiannavigation prohibited on the Amur—Expeditions of the Russians—Mouravieff—IgnatiefY— Russian annexations—Hopes of China and Russiain regard to Manchuria. Shunchih, the son of Tai Tsung, reigned for seventeenyears, and died in 1661, at the early age of twenty-three. From the death of the Eegent, which occurredabout ten years before, lie had commenced administer-ing the state himself, and, though he was very young,his contemporaries extolled his kindness in private, andhis prudence and magnanimity in public The 1 A very fine speech is put into his mouth by De Maillac, supposed tohave been addressed to the nobles on arriving at Peking, but it is certainlynot more authentic than those recorded by Thucydides. A better anec-dote is related by Pere dOrleans. Shunchih was fond of visiting FatherAdam Schaal, the astronomer, who lived in the palace precincts. It was,. HISTORY 63 present penal code of China was published when hehad only been three years on the throne, and, thoughthe credit of that work must be given to his uncle, itshows the spirit of reform which surrounded him. Aninteresting narrative of his stately court is preservedin the account of a Dutch embassy, which visitedPeking in July 1656, and stayed for three Dutch found there arrived already embassies fromthe Great Mogul of India, at that time the EmperorShah Jehan, from the Western Tartars (called Satatads),and from the Dalai Lama of Thibet. They performedthe ceremony of San kuei chiu kou—that is to say,kneeling before the Emperor three times, on each occa-Bion striking the forehead on the ground three times,or nine times in But they were only permittedto see the Emperor from a distance, and all they re-ceived in return for
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