FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



The latter were formerly known by the title of Chaothiang pai'pa 

 {by the burning of incense the brethren are known) ; later as 

 Kiang-fou-houi [river-take of the Hou-Pe, sect centre), Kolao (elder 

 brothers, younger brothers). Their most ordinary designation, how- 

 ever, is Chiao-chiang-tichiang {incense burners, elders, youngers). 

 It is even hinted that the leaders of these leagues aim at the 



actual overthrow of 

 the present dynasty. 

 As a matter of 

 fact, Father Lecruil- 

 cher was, at the 

 period of which we 

 write, left in peace. 

 The Christian in- 

 mates of his house 

 seemed good ser- 

 vants : one was the 

 teacher in the school, 

 and spoke Latin 

 fairly, another was a 

 horse-dealer, a third 

 a joiner. It was not 

 an uncommon thinof 

 for poorer parents to 

 sell their children : one such, an urchin of seven years, about the 

 size of a child of three at home, became quite a pet of ours. 

 He had a holiday in honour of our visit, and spent the whole 

 day in the court silently intent upon our movements, save when 

 we took any notice of him, when his face expanded into a wide 



smile, which, while it closed his eyes, permitted only the tip of 



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The Pel. 



