[721] In order to raise to nap and give an appearance of strength and
goodness.
[722] Costermongers and others acquire certain rights to doorsteps or
snug corners in Chinese cities which are not usually infringed by
competitors in the same line of business. Chair-coolies,
carrying-coolies, ferrymen, &c., also claim whole districts as their
particular field of operations and are very jealous of any
interference. I know of a case in which the right of “scavengering” a
town had been in the same family for generations, and no one dreamt of
trying to take it out of their hands.
[723] Chiefly alluding to small temples where some pious spirit may
have lighted a lamp or candle to the glory of his favourite P‘u-sa.
[724] This is done either by making a figure of the person to be
injured and burning it in a slow fire, like the old practice of the
wax figure in English history; or by obtaining his nativity
characters, writing them out on a piece of paper and burning them in a
candle, muttering all the time whatsoever mischief it is hoped will
befall him.
[725] Popularly known as the Chinese Pluto. The Indian _Yama_.
[726] The celebrated “See-one’s-home Terrace.”
[727] Regarded by the Chinese with intense disgust.
[728] Father’s, mother’s, and wife’s families.
[729] I know of few more pathetic passages throughout all the
exquisite imagery of the Divine Comedy than this in which the guilty
soul is supposed to look back to the home he has but lately left and
gaze in bitter anguish on his desolate hearth and broken household
gods. For once the gross tortures of Chinese Purgatory give place to
as refined and as dreadful a punishment as human ingenuity could well
devise.
[730] A long pole tipped with a kind of birdlime is cautiously
inserted between the branches of a tree, and then suddenly dabbed on
to some unsuspecting sparrow.
[731] If this is done in Winter or Spring the Spirits of the Hearth
and Threshold are liable to catch cold.
[732] I presume because God sits with his face to the south.
[733] Pious and wealthy people often give orders for an image of a
certain P‘u-sa to be made with an ounce or so of gold inside.
[734] Primarily, because no living thing should be killed for food.
The ox and the dog are specified because of their kindly services to
man in tilling the earth and guarding his home.
[735] The symbol of the Yin and the Yang, so ably and so poetically
explained by Mr. Alabaster in his pamphlet on the Doctrine of the
Ch‘i.
[736] One being male and the other being female. This calls to mind
the extreme modesty of a celebrated French lady, who would not put
books by male and female authors on the same shelf.
[737] The symbol on Buddha’s heart; more commonly known to the western
world as Thor’s Hammer.
[738] Emblems of Imperial dignity.
[739] Supposed to confer immortality.
[740] Unfit for translation.
[741] This is ingeniously expressed, as if _mothers_ were the prime
movers in such unnatural acts.
[742] On fête days at temples it is not uncommon to see cages full of
birds hawked about among the holiday-makers, that those who feel
twinges of conscience may purchase a sparrow or two and relieve
themselves from anxiety by the simple means of setting them at
liberty.
[743] Bones are used in glazing porcelain, to give a higher finish.
[744] The seven periods of seven days each which occur immediately
after a death and at which the departed shade is appeased with food
and offerings of various kinds.
[745] To warm them.
[746] When they are born again on earth.
[747] Heart, lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneys.
[748] Many millions of years.
[749] The following recipe for this deadly poison is given in the
well-known Chinese work _Instructions to Coroners_:--“Take a quantity
of insects of all kinds and throw them into a vessel of any kind;
cover them up, and let a year pass away before you look at them again.
The insects will have killed and eaten each other, until there is only
one survivor, and this one is _Ku_.”
[750] He who “turns the wheel;” a _chakravartti raja_.
[751] The capital city of the Infernal Regions.
[752] The ghosts of dead people are believed to be liable to death.
The ghost of a ghost is called _chien_.
[753] On the “Three Systems.” See note 702, _Appendix_.
[754] Women are considered in China to be far more revengeful than
men.
[755] See _Author’s Own Record_ (in _Introduction_), note 28.
[756] While in Purgatory.
[757] It was mentioned above that the rewards for virtue would be
continued to a man’s sons and grandsons.
[758] That is, go to heaven.
[759] Of meat, wine, &c.
APPENDIX B.
ANCESTRAL WORSHIP.
“The rudimentary form of all religion is the propitiation of dead
ancestors, who are supposed to be still existing, and to be capable of
working good or evil to their descendants.”--SPENCER’S ESSAYS. Vol.
iii., p. 102.--_The Origin of Animal Worship._
BILOCATION.
“As a general rule, people are apt to consider it impossible for a man
to be in two places at once, and indeed a saying to that effect has
become a popular saw. But the rule is so far from being universally
accepted, that the word ‘bilocation’ has been invented to express the
miraculous faculty possessed by certain saints of the Roman Church, of
being in two places at once; like St. Alfonso di Liguori, who had the
useful power of preaching his sermon in church while he was confessing
penitents at home.”--TYLOR’S _Primitive Culture_. Vol. i., p. 447.
BURIAL RITES.
“Hence the various burial rites--the placing of weapons and valuables
along with the body, the daily bringing of food to it, &c. I hope
hereafter, to show that with such knowledge of facts as he has, this
interpretation is the most reasonable the savage can arrive
at.”--SPENCER’S ESSAYS. Vol. iii., p. 104.--_The Origin of Animal
Worship._
DREAMS.
“The distinction so easily made by us between our life in dreams and our
real life, is one which the savage recognises in but a vague way; and he
cannot express even that distinction which he perceives. When he awakes,
and to those who have seen him lying quietly asleep, describes where he
has been, and what he has done, his rude language fails to state the
difference between seeing and dreaming that he saw, doing and dreaming
that he did. From this inadequacy of his language it not only results
that he cannot truly represent this difference to others, but also
that he cannot truly represent it to himself.”--SPENCER’S ESSAYS. Vol.
iii., pp. 103, 104.
SHADE OR SHADOW.
“The ghost or phantasm seen by the dreamer or the visionary is an
unsubstantial form, like a shadow, and thus the familiar term of the
_shade_ comes in to express the soul. Thus the Tasmanian word for the
shadow is also that for the spirit; the Algonquin Indians describe a
man’s soul as _otahchuk_, ‘his shadow;’ the Quiché language uses
_natub_ for ‘shadow, soul;’ the Arawac _ueja_ means ‘shadow, soul,
image;’ the Abipones made the one word _loákal_ serve for ‘shadow,
soul, echo, image.’”--TYLOR’S _Primitive Culture_. Vol. i., p. 430.
SHADOW.
“Thus the dead in Purgatory knew that Dante was alive when they saw
that, unlike theirs, his figure cast a shadow on the ground.”--TYLOR’S
_Primitive Culture_. Vol. i., p. 431.
THE SOUL.
“The savage, conceiving a corpse to be deserted by the active
personality who dwelt in it, conceives this active personality to be
still existing, and his feelings and ideas concerning it form the
basis of his superstitions.”--SPENCER’S ESSAYS. Vol. iii., p.
103.--_The Origin of Animal Worship._
TRANSMIGRATION.
“Whether the Buddhists receive the full Hindu doctrine of the
migration of the individual soul from birth to birth, or whether they
refine away into metaphysical subtleties the notion of continued
personality, they do consistently and systematically hold that a
man’s life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he
is, while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose
result will determine his fate in future lives.”--TYLOR’S _Primitive
Culture_. Vol. ii., p. 12.
TRANSMIGRATION.
“Memory, it is true, fails generally to recall these past births, but
memory, as we know, stops short of the beginning even of this present
life.”--TYLOR’S _Primitive Culture_. Vol. ii., p. 12.
TRANSMIGRATION.
“As for believers, savage or civilised, in the great doctrine of
metempsychosis, these not only consider that an animal may have a
soul, but that this soul may have inhabited a human being, and thus
the creature may be in fact their own ancestor or once familiar
friend.”--TYLOR’S _Primitive Culture_. Vol. i., p. 469.
TREE-SOULS.
“Orthodox Buddhism decided against the tree-souls, and consequently
against the scruple to harm them, declaring trees to have no mind nor
sentient principle, though admitting that certain dewas or spirits do
reside in the body of trees, and speak from within them.”--TYLOR’S
_Primitive Culture_. Vol. i., p. 475.
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INDEX TO THE NOTES.
VOL. PAGE NOTE
Abstinence from Wine and Meat i. 23 52
Actors i. 218 188
Adoption i. 386 310
„ ii. 156 492
„ ii. 272 611
Adulteration ii. 332 675
Age of graduates i. 345 274
Age to marry i. 113 112
Alchemy i. 65 83
„ ii. 313 654
Alms’-bowl i. 246 211
„ i. 395 320
Amusements, Literary i. 215 186
Anatomy, Chinese ii. 253 590
“Angels” of Taoism i. 17 48
Arbiter of Life and Death i. 226 194
Archery i. 91 92
Aristocracy, The i. 186 156
Auspicious Sites i. 336 268
Bad Sons i. 147 131
„ „ ii. 212 545
„ „ ii. 281 622
Bambooing i. 55 76
Banquets, Theatrical Entertainments during ii. 54 396
Beadles ii. 17 373
Beauty, Chinese ii. 123 449
Beggars i. 246 212
Betrothals i. 108 108
„ i. 193 165
„ i. 227 195
Bikshu i. 395 320
Blowing into meat ii. 306 647
Blue China Epoch ii. 303 645
Bôdhisatva i. 208 182
Bridal procession i. 338 269
Bridegroom living in bride’s family i. 193 163
Brotherly deference i. 314 247
„ dependence i. 318 250
Brothers having separate establishments ii. 322 669
Brown deer of Formosa i. 399 329
Buddha, Repeating the name of i. 367 293
“Bull’s hide” trick, The ii. 180 518
Burials i. 197 171
Burying stray bones, &c. ii. 147 485
Caligraphy ii. 174 512
Capping verses i. 332 262
„ „ ii. 57 399
Cash i. 6 42
„ ii. 171 503
Cat and dog Restaurant ii. 308 649
Catalepsy i. 4 40
„ ii. 73 410
Celibacy i. 23 52
Censorate, The i. 229 197
Chai-mui i. 333 265
Chamber of Horrors i. 93 94
Change of residence i. 321 251
Charitable gifts i. 137 129
Chess, Chinese i. 46 66
Chou, General ii. 221 557
Chowry ii. 71 407
Clay-image makers ii. 276 616
Clepsydra i. 49 70
“Climbing trees to catch fish” ii. 305 646
Coffins i. 102 104
„ i. 197 172
„ deposited in Temples i. 237 203
„ for poor people ii. 316 658
„ Sleeping in ii. 354 691
Concubines i. 395 321
Confucius, Descendants of i. 33 61
Conservatism i. 427 348
Contemplation, Priestly ii. 71 406
Coroners ii. 196 530
Counting cattle, Method of ii. 255 594
Cow-herd and the Lady i. 27 55
Cricket-fighting i. 75 85
Crows, Feeding the i. 279 229
Cumquats ii. 301 644
Cycle, The Chinese i. 180 152
Cynthia, The Chinese i. 171 147
Damon and Pythias i. 166 143
Death i. 150 134
„ Fear of i. 101 103
Death-summons, The i. 150 134
Decapitation ii. 78 414
Degrees, The three i. 1 37
Devils, Good and bad ii. 201 534
Dice ii. 145 480
Divorce i. 360 288
Doctors ii. 293 634
Dogs, Chinese ii. 309 651
Dolphin, Fresh-water ii. 43 386
_Double-entendres_ ii. 176 515
Dragon-boat festival ii. 168 497
Dragons ii. 112 439
„ ii. 349 686
Dreams ii. 250 586
Dwarfs i. 224 193
Drunkenness i. 30 59
„ i. 365 292
„ ii. 30 378
Eating ii. 111 438
Education i. 297 237
„ ii. 322 668
Elixir of Immortality i. 19 49
„ „ ii. 168 498
Examinations, Competitive i. 195 168
„ „ ii. 64 403
„ „ ii. 91 426
Eye, Pupils of the i. 8 43
Fa Hsien’s journey ii. 232 567
Fabulous Lion ii. 343 682
Facing the South ii. 103 431
Falconry i. 22 51
Fan, An Autumn i. 361 289
Fantan i. 421 343
Fatalism i. 340 270
Feet of betrothed tied together i. 431 354
Fêng-Shui ii. 322 667
Feudal Governor ii. 287 628
“_Fiancé_,” Death of a i. 99 101
Figure-head ii. 54 395
Fire-wells ii. 238 575
Flageolets i. 28 58
Folk-lore in the North and South ii. 329 674
Fondness for children i. 401 332
Foot-binding i. 192 161
Fortune-tellers i. 47 68
Foundries, Iron ii. 216 549
Four Books, The i. 297 237
Four Seas, The ii. 116 444
Fox influence i. 32 60
Foxes, Soothsayers possessed by ii. 358 694
Gambling i. 421 343
Ganges, The ii. 28 377
Gates of a city shut at night ii. 262 598
Geese i. 255 217
“Gentleman,” The Chinese i. 168 145
Geomancy i. 227 195
Gioros i. 66 84
Girdles, The pearl i. 283 230
Glass i. 249 214
„ ii. 233 571
Go-betweens i. 187 157
„ ii. 154 490
God of War, The i. 2 39
“Golden lilies” i. 188 159
“Golden Orchid” Societies i. 196 170
Gongs ii. 105 433
Good fortune, Absorbing only a certain
quantity of i. 342 271
Graduates by purchase i. 202 177
Graduates, Senior i. 199 175
Grave, The i. 240 207
Great beam, Fixing the ii. 267 602
Greed ii. 74 411
Han dynasty i. 258 219
Han-lin, The Chinese National Academy i. 195 169
Heart, The i. 96 97,
98
Homicide i. 353 285
Honesty in olden times ii. 250 587
“Hsi-yüan-lu,” The i. 98 100
“Hu,” The name i. 89 90
Hué i. 397 325
Human life, Value of ii. 338 678
Hungry devils ii. 270 607
Immortality i. 157 139
Immortals, Record of the ii. 88 423
Imperial mandates ii. 240 578
Impressment i. 220 190
Infernal Regions ii. 95 427
„ „ ii. 354 690
Inheritance, Law of ii. 345 683
Initiation of a Priest ii. 69 405
Inner apartments i. 53 74
„ „ i. 252 215
„ „ ii. 46 388
Jelly-fish ii. 332 676
Judas tree ii. 151 488
Judges ii. 96 429
Jugglers ii. 189 527
Khakkharam, The i. 395 320
Kangs ii. 133 469
Keeping secret professional knowledge ii. 255 593
Kidnapping i. 183 154
Kite-flying Festival ii. 268 605
Knife Hill, The ii. 205 539
Kot‘ow, The i. 388 314
K‘u-ts‘an ii. 255 592
Kuan-yin i. 241 208
Lanterns, Feast of i. 99 102
Li T‘ai-poh ii. 144 476
Lictors ii. 205 537
Lighting the Eyes ii. 224 558
Lingering death, The i. 396 322
Literary chancellor ii. 284 626
Literati, The ii. 36 384
Literature, God of ii. 320 662
Liu Ch‘üan and the melon ii. 351 689
Living Lictors of Purgatory, The i. 207 180
Loans ii. 171 501
Locusts ii. 242 579
Lohans ii. 321 666
Long Robes ii. 273 612
Lots, Drawing ii. 73 409
Love-matches i. 115 113
Lucifer Matches ii. 120 447
Lunatics ii. 30 378
Lü Tung-pin ii. 296 639
Magic Sword i. 62 80
Mandarin Dialect i. 398 327
Manslaughter i. 222 192
Marriage Ceremonies i. 10 45
„ „ i. 181 153
„ „ i. 227 195
„ „ i. 228 196
Marriages i. 108 109
„ i. 193 165
Marrying a second time i. 112 110
Mars, The Chinese i. 2 39
Medical testimonials ii. 292 633
Memorial tablet, Inking ii. 224 558
Mercy, The Goddess of i. 241 208
Messengers of good tidings ii. 252 589
Milky way, The i. 152 135
Miracles i. 396 323
“Mirror and Listen” trick ii. 251 588
Misappropriation of funds ii. 224 559
Moon, The Goddess of the i. 19 49
„ The Lady of the i. 19 49
Mothers-in-law i. 315 249
Mourning for a father i. 199 174
Mules ii. 242 580
Murders i. 230 198
Names, Family i. 92 93
„ Personal ii. 132 466
Night, Divisions of the i. 215 187
Nine grades of official life i. 388 313
Nunneries i. 262 221
Oath of confederation ii. 146 482
Oblivion, Potion of ii. 207 544
Official corruption ii. 79 415
„ responsibility i. 232 199
Officials i. 237 202
Old age ii. 31 379
Olive, the sign of peace i. 324 256
Paper men i. 49 71
„ money i. 391 317
„ „ ii. 172 505
Pao Shu i. 166 143
Patra, The i. 395 320
„ „ i. 246 211
Pawn-shops i. 198 173
Persia ii. 25 376
Phœnix Tower ii. 270 608
Physiognomy, Professors of ii. 290 630
Planchette ii. 295 638
Playing _wei-ch‘i_ for money ii. 271 609
Poetical proficiency i. 33 62
Police system i. 221 191
Politeness ii. 203 536
Poor scholars i. 160 142
Pope of the Taoists i. 118 114
Porterage ii. 181 519
Posthumous Honours i. 305 241
Praying for good or bad weather ii. 294 637
Praying-mat ii. 183 521
Precedence at table i. 332 261
Predestination i. 48 69
„ i. 156 138
Primogeniture i. 203 179
Prisoners in China i. 372 299
„ „ ii. 96 428
„ „ ii. 261 597
P‘u-hsien, God of Action ii. 232 569
Pulse, The i. 39 64
Punishments i. 381 306
Pupils taken by priests ii. 119 446
Purgatory, Capital of ii. 238 575
Quail-fighting i. 75 85
Quail’s Tail, A i. 209 183
Rebel, The first ii. 52 392
Red-garment figure, The i. 19 50
Red-haired barbarians ii. 179 517
Relationship, Test of ii. 278 619
Religion and the drama i. 345 277
Resemblance between soul and body ii. 280 620
Retinues of mandarins i. 389 315
„ „ ii. 174 510
„ „ ii. 175 513
Returning invitations ii. 227 561
Revenge i. 310, 243,
311 244
„ for adultery i. 62 81
Reward of filial piety i. 351 283
Rising when spoken to ii. 280 621
Roc, The ii. 341 680
Rosary, The Buddhist i. 369 295
Royal Mother, The ii. 187 525
Rulers of animal and vegetable kingdoms i. 292 235
Running water ii. 110 437
Sacred edict, The i. 203 179
Sale of children i. 183 154
„ degrees ii. 170 499
Salt monopoly ii. 215 547
“Same-year men” i. 136 128
Saving life ii. 200 533
„ „ ii. 214 546
Scribbling and carving names ii. 123 451
Sea-serpent, The ii. 113 441
Secret societies i. 196 170
Sections of Purgatory, The nine ii. 205 538
Senses, The five i. 259 220
Separation of sexes ii. 167 496
Shaking hands i. 287 233
„ „ ii. 151 489
Sham entertainment i. 323 254
Shampooing ii. 53 393
“Shang-yang” brings rain ii. 131 464
“Shoes” of silver i. 148 133
Short weights ii. 325 670
Shun, The Emperor i. 37 63
Shun Chih, The Emperor ii. 184 522
Sickness i. 107 107
Six Boards, The i. 26 54
Slave-girls’ feet i. 430 353
Slavery i. 211 185
Small feet i. 76 86
„ „ i. 192 161
„ waists ii. 47 390
Sons i. 64 82
Spirit calling i. 189 160
„ entering another’s body ii. 24 375
Spirits, Disembodied i. 79 87
„ „ i. 119 115
„ „ i. 123 119
„ „ i. 157 139
Spiritualistic _séances_ ii. 133 467
Sponge, A i. 248 213
Spring festival ii. 186 524
Squeezes i. 219 189
Staff of Buddhist priests, The i. 395 320
Stealing, Pardonable ii. 217 551
Strong rooms ii. 172 504
Styx, The ii. 216 548
Subscriptions ii. 220 556
Substantiality of ghosts i. 239 205
„ „ ii. 236 574
Substitution theory i. 334 267
Suicide i. 311 244
„ Meritorious ii. 142 475
Superior man, The i. 168 145
Supernatural government i. 292 235
Supreme Ruler, The i. 242 209
Surnames, Common i. 210 184
Sutra, The Diamond i. 238 204
Tails of horses not cut ii. 286 627
Taking life i. 79 88
Talking when born i. 243 210
Tao i. 14 46
Taot‘ai ii. 229 562
Tartar general ii. 128 461
Temples, Repairs to ii. 127 460
Theatricals i. 218 188
Threshing-floors ii. 236 573
Thunder, God of i. 43 65
„ „ ii. 112 440
Ting P‘u-lang ii. 109 435
Titles of Nobility i. 305 241
Torture ii. 81 417
„ Supply of instruments of ii. 238 576
Tree worship ii. 72 408
Trousseau, Bride’s i. 256 218
Tung-t‘ing Lake i. 271 226
Types of friendship i. 166 143
Tzŭ-ang, a Chinese Landseer ii. 287 629
Ulysses, A Chinese i. 91 91
Ushnisha, The ii. 320 665
Valuables in coffins i. 311 245
Verdict i. 56 78
Visiting the tutor ii. 126 458
Vital spots on the body ii. 356 693
Wang Wei, The poet ii. 149 487
Washing-blocks ii. 315 656
Watchmen i. 51 72
Wedding-presents i. 28 57
Wei-ch‘i ii. 268 604
Wên-shu, the God of Wisdom ii. 232 569
White Lily sect ii. 189 526
Widowers ii. 183 520
Widows ii. 39 385
Windows i. 61 79
Wine ii. 259, 595,
260 596
Wine-cup upside down, Turning the i. 264 224
Wine taken hot ii. 144 477
Witnesses in a court of justice ii. 156 491
Women ride astride i. 354 286
Wooden fish, The ii. 195 529
Works of supererogation i. 426 346
Worldly-mindedness ii. 312 653
Wu Wang i. 278 228
Yamên i. 2 38
Yang Ta-hung ii. 310 652
Yang-tsze, The ii. 176 514
Years, Names of i. 113 111
Yellow girdles i. 66 84
_Yin_ and the _yang_, The i. 176 150
Yojana, A i. 394 319
Yü-chiao-li, The ii. 164 495
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This book was printed in two volumes, of which this is a combination.
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
Obvious typographical errors repaired. Punctuation, spelling,
hyphenation, use of accented characters and stylistic presentation
standardized when a predominant preference was found in this book.
Capitalization and hyphenation of Chinese personal names has been
standardized. Otherwise left as printed.
Footnote numbers were re-indexed in this electronic text, internal
references renumbered correspondingly.
Footnote 46, ‘old’ changed to ‘odd’ (presenting a very odd
appearance).
Footnote 109, ‘Marriages’ changed to ‘Marriage’ (Marriage between persons
of the same surname is forbidden).
Footnote 267, ‘CVI’ changed to ‘CVII.’ (later story (No. CVII.),).
Footnote 427, ‘excepting’ changed to ‘except’ (except in the matter of
light).
Footnote 447, ‘of’ added (first quarter of the present century).
Footnote 479, ‘denôuement’ changed to ‘dénouement’ (important to the
_dénouement_ of the story).
Footnote 495, ‘dénoûement’ changed to ‘dénouement’ (The _dénouement_
of the _Yü-chiao-li_).
Footnote 527, ‘Ibu’ changed to ‘Ibn’ (Ibn Batuta writes as follows).
Footnote 679, ‘LXVII.’ changed to ‘LXVIII.’ (See No. LXVIII.).
Page i-36, ‘villanous’ changed to ‘villainous’ (he writes a villainous
hand).
Page i-86, ‘dare’ changed to ‘dared’ (nobody dared go near her).
Page i-306, ‘grottos’ changed to ‘grottoes’ (from each of the holes or
grottoes on the stone).
Page i-378, ‘Shan’ changed to ‘Shan-hu’ (Shan-hu held out her arms).
Page i-408, ‘watching’ changed to ‘watched’ (watched the moon rising in
the east).
Page i-411, ‘bid’ changed to ‘bade’ (Wang’s father bade him hide).
Page ii-19, ‘of’ added (a number of curious stones).
Page ii-65, ‘be’ changed to ‘he’ (but he soon reflected).
Page ii-145, ‘sung’ changed to ‘sang’ (whereupon he sang the following
lines).
Page ii-198, ‘he’ changed to ‘be’ (that he would be only too happy).
Page ii-208, ‘according’ changed to ‘accordingly’ (accordingly, when
the King was looking).
Page ii-254, ‘Ch‘êng’ changed to ‘Ch‘ên’ (This frightened Ch‘ên).
Page ii-255, ‘Ch‘êng’ changed to ‘Ch‘ên’ (Ch‘ên himself was a
cattle-farmer).
Page ii-286, ‘servants’ changed to ‘servant’ (rode away, telling his
servant).
Page ii-287, ‘a Mr. Ts‘ui’ changed to ‘Mr. Ts‘ui’ (who lived next door
to Mr. Ts‘ui).
Page ii-41, ‘He then bit her across the neck’ should probably be ‘He then
hit her across the neck’.