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to exist in these parts. How could so true a likeness have been 

 produced if the gods had not sent the i3attern?" A photo of this 

 speaking likeness is here shewn : 



By the way, amongst the Miao, Lolo and some other tribes in 

 Yunnan, the common fashion of hairdressing is to bring all the hair 

 to the top of the forehead, and there fix it in the form of a horn. 

 Hence they are commonly referred to, by the Chinese, as #§ ^j ^ . 



Dr. H. A. Giles writes : 



In last year's Journal (p. 165) there is a quota- 



_ , .-. tion from the Family Sayings of Confucius, which 



Translation J J J 



runs as follows : ^f* ft ¥ M Wi A BM 2.®! ftl& 



(sic, should be m-Zm^ltA (M omitted) Hi^ P mte&W & 

 ~jfr ^. IE f A fe ■ Dr. Ferguson translates this by, "In the 

 Family Sayings it is narrated that when Confucius went to Chow, 

 he visited the Hou Chi temple and saw bronze men at the right of 

 the altar. Their mouths were thrice bound up. Confucius wrote an 

 inscription on the back of the figures 'These were the men of ancient 

 times who were careful of their words.' " The passage really means, 

 "when Confucius went to Chow, he visited the ancestral temple of 

 Hou Chi. In front of the steps to the right, there were three bronze 

 men. Their mouths were sealed, and on their backs was an inscrip- 

 tion, saying, 'The men of old were careful of their words.' : The H. 

 "three" belongs to \ "men," and Confucius had nothing to do with 

 the inscription. 



