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the construction of the sentences. ' Quickly thy 

 viastcr s /loots,' once said a comprador at Kalgan to 

 me on seeing me shoot rock-pigeons on the wing. 

 ' Thy food zuill not zuillf enquired the same indivi- 

 dual, offering me at the same time something to eat. 

 We met several such grammarians at Urga. One 

 of them had the reputation of having formerly manu- 

 factured false Russian bank-notes, which he circu- 

 lated among the Mongols. On asking him if he 

 still continued this occupation, he replied : ' Ноги is 

 that possible now thy paper bad is? write write — (i.e. 

 the text on the bank-note) — -fczu few onr people do 

 can, biit the face (i.e. the portrait) very wonderful is.' 

 The Mongols, however, are not particular about the 

 artistic merit of the bank-note ; and we saw several 

 false notes at Urga, the portraits on which were 

 simply drawn by hand. 



Another comprador thus expressed his opinion 

 to me of foreigners residing in China : ' Thy people 

 same as Pehling-Fanqui ^ not ; thy people our people 

 odali ^ good ; Pehling-Fanqui bad are.' I could not 

 help being flattered at hearing such praise from a 

 Chinaman, who thus assured me ' that луе were not 

 at all like the French and English, but the same as 

 the Chinese who good are.' 



However, this opinion, which may have been 

 only that of the individual, does not free the Russian 

 from the general hatred which the Chinese entertain 



* Pehling is the Chinese for Englishmen j Fanqui for Frenchmen. 

 "^ Odali means 'same as' in the dialect of Trans- Baikalia, 



