Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking to determine the
military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in
this wise:—
The _Yü Lan_ has an interpolated 五 before 計. It is obvious,
however, that the 五者 just enumerated cannot be described as 計.
Capt. Calthrop, forced to give some rendering of the words which
he had omitted in § 3, shows himself decidedly hazy: “Further,
with regard to these and the following seven matters, the
condition of the enemy must be compared with our own.” He does not
appear to see that the seven queries or considerations which
follow arise directly out of the Five heads, instead of being
supplementary to them.