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NOTICES RESPECTING MAHOMEDANS AND JEWS. 
Page 147 . — Notices respecting Mahomedans and Jews. 
[from mr. morrison’s journal.] 
“ Mahomedans were found in every part of our journey. They fre- 
quently hold situations in the government. 
“ On the evening of September 10th, whilst walking on shore at a village 
called Too-leaou, about fifty miles from Teen-tsin, I observed written on the 
lantern of a poor huckster’s shop, Hwung-hwing-loou-teen, ‘ An old Maho- 
medan shop.’ On stopping to ask the owner, who was an old man, whence 
he came, he replied, ‘ from Seyang,’ * the Western Ocean.’ When urged 
to say from what country of the West, he said he did not know. He un- 
derstood his family had been in the place he now was for five generations. 
“ He informed me there were many Mahomedans in the neighbourhood ; 
they had a Le-pae-sze, ‘ Temple for Worship.’ They observed every third 
and seventh day ; chiefly the seventh. They used for the Chinese word 
Teen, ‘ Heaven,’ the word Choo, ‘ Lord or Sovereign.’ The old man 
could not read : he did not cease to sell commodities on the Sabbath. 
“ October 13th. At a temple of Fuh, near Kwa-chow, I met with a 
gentleman who held a situation under government. On entering into con- 
versation with him, it appeared that he was a Mahomedan. 
“ He said, he understood that the Mahomedans came over to China 
during the dynasty Tang, about twelve hundred years ago. 
“ In Chinese the Mahomedans express the deity by Choo, ‘ Lord,’ and not 
by Shin, ‘ a God, or Spirit ;’ because he said the Gods (Shin) were in- 
cluded in things created. * We,’ said he, ‘ venerate the Lord, who is the 
true Lord of what exists, and what does not ; the Creator of all things, 
He is not like any thing ; not to be compared to any thing ; the one only 
true Lord.’ He called the Sabbath by the name ‘ Choo-ma-ush.’ 
“ He informed me that at Kae-fung-foo, in Honan province, there were 
a few families denoted Teaou-kin-keaou, ‘ the plucking sinew sect,’ because 
they take the sinews from all the flesh which they eat. They also had a Le- 
pae-sye, or Temple of Worship. They observed the eighth day as a Sabbath. 
He regarded them the same as the Teen-choo-keau, which is the name 
by which the Christians are known in China. 
“ The above statement exactly corresponds with what is related in Grosier, 
on the authority of a Romish missionary. That person saw and conversed 
with the people of whom he spake, and he considered them as Jews. 
