certain of the barbarians6; their power and the manner of
their suppression. Suppression. The incredible obtuseness8 of
those who attend within tea-houses. The harmonious9 attitude
of a person of commerce.
VENERATED10 SIRE (at whose virtuous11 and well-established feet an unworthy son now prostrates14 himself in spirit repeatedly),—
Having at length reached the summit of my journey, that London of which the merchants from Canton spoke15 so many strange and incredible things, I now send you filial salutations three times increased, and in accordance with your explicit16 command I shall write all things to you with an unvarnished brush, well assured that your versatile17 object in committing me to so questionable18 an enterprise was, above all, to learn the truth of these matters in an undeviating and yet open-headed spirit of accuracy and toleration.
Of the perils19 incurred20 while travelling in the awe-inspiring devices by which I was transferred from shore to shore and yet further inland, of the utter absence of all leisurely21 dignity on the part of those controlling their movements, and of the almost unnatural22 self-opinionatedness which led them to persist in starting at a stated and prearranged time, even when this person had courteously23 pointed24 out to them by irrefutable omens25 that neither the day nor the hour was suitable for the venture, I have already written. It is enough to assert that a similar want of prudence26 was maintained on every occasion, and, as a result, when actually within sight of the walls of this city, we were involved for upwards27 of an hour in a very evilly-arranged yellow darkness, which, had we but delayed for a day, as I strenuously28 advised those in authority after consulting the Sacred Flat and Round Sticks, we should certainly have avoided.
Concerning the real nature of the devices by which the ships are propelled at sea and the carriages on land, I must still unroll a blank mind until I can secretly, and without undue29 hazard, examine them more closely. If, as you maintain, it is the work of captive demons hidden away among their most inside parts, it must be admitted that these usually intractable beings are admirably trained and controlled, and I am wide-headed enough to think that in this respect we might—not-withstanding our nine thousand years of civilised refinement30—learn something of the methods of these barbarians. The secret, however, is jealously guarded, and they deny the existence of any supernatural forces; but their protests may be ignored, for there is undoubtedly31 a powerful demon2 used in a similar way by some of the boldest of them, although its employment is unlawful. A certain kind of chariot is used for the occupation of this demon, and those who wish to invoke4 it conceal32 their faces within masks of terrifying design, and cover their hands and bodies with specially33 prepared garments, without which it would be fatal to encounter these very powerful spirits. While yet among the habitations of men, and in crowded places, they are constrained34 to use less powerful demons, which are lawful1, but when they reach the unfrequented paths they throw aside all restraint, and, calling to their aid the forbidden spirit (which they do by secret movements of the hands), they are carried forward by its agency at a speed unattainable by merely human means. By day the demon looks forth35 from three white eyes, which at night have a penetrating36 brilliance37 equal to the fiercest glances of the Sacred Dragon in anger. If any person incautiously stands in its way it utters a warning cry of intolerable rage, and should the presumptuous38 one neglect to escape to the roadside and there prostrate13 himself reverentially before it, it seizes him by the body part and contemptuously hurls39 him bruised40 and unrecognisable into the boundless41 space of the around. Frequently the demon causes the chariot to rise into the air, and it is credibly42 asserted by discriminating43 witnesses (although this person only sets down as incapable44 of denial that which he has actually beheld45) that some have maintained an unceasing flight through the middle air for a distance of many li. Occasionally the captive demon escapes from the bondage46 of those who have invoked it, through some incautious gesture or heretical remark on their part, and then it never fails to use them grievously, casting them to the ground wounded, consuming the chariot with fire, and passing away in the midst of an exceedingly debased odour, by which it is always accompanied after the manner of our own earth spirits.
This being, as this person has already set forth, an unlawful demon on account of its power when once called up, and the admitted uncertainty47 of its movements, those in authority maintain a stern and inexorable face towards the practice. To entrap48 the unwary certain persons (chosen on account of their massive outlines, and further protected from evil influences by their pure and consistent habits) keep an unceasing watch. When one of them, himself lying concealed49, detects the approach of such a being, he closely observes the position of the sun, and signals to the other a message of warning. Then the second one, shielded by the sanctity of his life and rendered inviolable by the nature of his garments—his sandals alone being capable of overturning any demon from his path should it encounter them—boldly steps forth into the road and holds out before him certain sacred emblems50. So powerful are these that at the sight the unlawful demon confesses itself vanquished51, and although its whole body trembles with ill-contained rage, and the air around is poisoned by its discreditable exhalation, it is devoid52 of further resistance. Those in the chariot are thereupon commanded to dismiss it, and being bound in chains they are led into the presence of certain lesser53 mandarins who administer justice from a raised dais.
“Behold!” exclaims the chief of the captors, when the prisoners have been placed in obsequious54 attitudes before the lesser mandarins, “thus the matter chanced: The honourable55 Wang, although disguised under the semblance56 of an applewoman, had discreetly57 concealed himself by the roadside, all but his head being underneath59 a stream of stagnant60 water, when, at the eighth hour of the morning, he beheld these repulsive61 outcasts approaching in their chariot, carried forward by the diabolical62 vigour63 of the unlawful demon. Although I had stationed myself several li distant from the accomplished64 Wang, the chariot reached me in less than a breathing space of time, those inside assuming their fiercest and most aggressive attitudes, and as they came repeatedly urging the demon to increased exertions65. Their speed exceeded that of the swallow in his hymeneal flight, all shrubs66 and flowers by the wayside withered67 incapably68 at the demon’s contaminating glance, running water ceased to flow, and the road itself was scorched69 at their passage, the earth emitting a dull bluish flame. These facts, and the times and the distances, this person has further inscribed71 in a book which thus disposes of all possible defence. Therefore, O lesser mandarins, let justice be accomplished heavily and without delay; for, as the proverb truly says, ‘The fiercer the flame the more useless the struggles of the victim.’”
At this point the prisoners frequently endeavour to make themselves heard, protesting that in the distance between the concealed Wang and the one who stands accusing them they had thrice stopped to repair their innermost details, had leisurely partaken of food and wine, and had also been overtaken, struck, and delayed by a funeral procession. But so great is the execration72 in which these persons are held, that although murderers by stealth, outlaws73, snatchers from the body, and companies of men who by strategy make a smaller sum of money appear to be larger, can all freely testify their innocence74, raisers of this unlawful demon must not do so, and they are beaten on the head with chains until they desist.
Then the lesser mandarins, raising their voices in unison75, exclaim, “The amiable76 Tsay-hi has reported the matter in a discreet58 and impartial77 spirit. Hear our pronouncement: These raisers of illegal spirits shall each contribute ten taels of gold, which shall be expended78 in joss-sticks, in purifying the road which they have scorched, and in alleviating79 the distress80 of the poor and virtuous of both sexes. The praiseworthy Tsay-hi, moreover, shall embroider81 upon his sleeve an honourable sign in remembrance of the event. Let drums now be beat, and our verdict loudly proclaimed throughout the province.”
These things, O my illustrious father (although on account of my contemptible82 deficiencies of style much may seem improbable to your all-knowing mind), these things I write with an unbending brush; for I set down only that which I have myself seen, or read in their own printed records. Doubtless it will occur to one of your preternatural intelligence that our own system of administering justice, whereby the person who can hire the greater number of witnesses is reasonably held to be in the right, although perhaps not absolutely infallible, is in every way more convenient; but, as it is well said, “To the blind, night is as acceptable as day.”
Henceforth you will have no hesitation83 in letting it be known throughout Yuen-ping that these foreign barbarians do possess secret demons, in spite of their denials. Doubtless I shall presently discover others no less powerful.
With honourable distinction this person has at length grasped the essential details of the spoken language here—not sufficiently84 well, indeed, to make himself understood on most occasions, or even to understand others, but enough to perceive clearly when he fails to become intelligible85 or when they experience a like difficulty with him. Upon an earlier occasion, before he had made so much progress, being one day left to his own resources, and feeling an internal lack, he entered what appeared to be a tea-shop of reputable demeanour, and, seating himself at one of the little marble tables, he freely pronounced the carefully-learned word “rice” to the attending nymph. To put aside all details of preparation (into which, indeed, this person could not enter) he waved his hand gracefully86, at the same time smiling with an expression of tolerant acquiescence87, as of one who would say that what was good enough to be cooked and offered by so entrancing a maiden88 was good enough to be eaten by him. After remaining in unruffled tranquillity89 for the full portion of an hour, and observing that no other person around had to wait above half that period, this one began to perceive that the enterprise was not likely to terminate in a manner satisfactory to himself; so that, leaving this place with a few well-chosen phrases of intolerable regret in his own tongue, he entered another, and conducted himself in a like fashion.... Towards evening, with an unperturbed exterior90, but materially afflicted91 elsewhere, this person seated himself within the eleventh tea-shop, and, pointing first towards his own constituents92 of digestion93, then at the fire, and lastly in an upward direction, thereby94 signified to any not of stunted95 intellect that he had reached such a condition of mind and body that he was ready to consume whatever the ruling deities96 were willing to allot97, whether boiled, baked, roast, or suspended from a skewer98. In this resolve nothing would move him, until—after many maidens99 had approached with outstretched hands and gestures of despair—there presently entered a person wearing the helmet of a warrior100 and the manner of a high official, who spoke strongly, yet persuasively101, of the virtues102 of immediate103 movement and a quiet and reposeful104 bearing.
Assuredly a people who devote so little attention to the study of food, and all matters connected with it, must inevitably105 remain barbaric, however skilfully106 they may feign107 a superficial refinement. It is said, although I do not commit this matter to my own brush, that among them are more books composed on subjects which have no actual existence than on cooking, and, incredible as it may appear, to be exceptionally round-bodied confers no public honour upon the individual. Should a favourable108 occasion present itself, there are many who do not scruple109 to jest upon the subject of food, or, what is incalculably more depraved, upon the scarcity110 of it.
Nevertheless, there are exceptions of a highly distinguished111 radiance. Among these must be accounted one into whose presence this person was recently led by our polished and harmonious friend Quang-Tsun, the merchant in tea and spices. This versatile person, whose business-name is spoken of as Jones Bob-Jones, is worthy12 of all benignant respect, and in a really enlightened country would doubtless be raised to a more exalted112 position than that of a breaker of outsides (an occupation difficult to express adequately in the written language of a country where it is unknown), for his face is like the sun setting in the time of harvest, his waist garment excessive, and the undoubted symmetry of his middle portions honourable in the extreme. So welcome in my eyes, after witnessing an unending stream of concave and attenuated113 barbarian7 ghosts, was the sight of these perfections of Jones Bob-Jones, that instead of the formal greeting of this Island—the unmeaning “How do you do it?”—I shook hands cordially with myself, and exclaimed affectionately in our own language, “Illimitable felicities! How is your stomach?”
“Well,” replied Jones Bob-Jones, after Quang-Tsun had interpreted this polite salutation to his understanding, “since you mention it, that’s just the trouble; but I’m going on pretty well, thanks. I’ve tried most of the advertised things, and now my doctor has put me practically on a bread-and-water course—clear soup, boiled fish, plain joint114, no sweets, a crumb115 of cheese, and a bare three glasses of Hermitage.”
During this amiable remark (of which, as it is somewhat of a technical nature, I was unable to grasp the contained significance until the agreeable Quang-Tsun had subsequently repeated it several times for my retention), I maintained a consistent expression of harmonious agreement and gratified esteem116 (suitable, I find, for all like occasions), and then, judging from the sympathetic animation117 of Jones Bob-Jones’s countenance118, that it had not improbably been connected with food, I discreetly introduced the subject of sea-snails, preserved in the essence of crushed peaches, by courteously inquiring whether he had ever partaken of such a delicacy119.
“No,” replied the liberal-minded person, when—encouraged by the protruding120 eagerness of his eyes at the mention of the viand—I had further spoken of the refined flavour of the dish, and explained the manner of its preparation. “I can’t say that I have, but it sounds uncommonly121 good—something like turtle, I should imagine. I’ll see if they can get it for me at Pimm’s.”
This filial tribute goes by a trusty hand, in the person of one Ki Nihy, who is shortly committing himself to the protection of his ancestors and the voracity122 of the unbounded Bitter Waters; and with brightness and gold it will doubtless reach you in the course of twelve or eighteen moons. The superstitious123 here, this person may describe, when they wish to send messages from one to another, inscribe70 upon the outer cover a written representation of the one whose habitation they require, and after affixing124 a small paper talisman125, drop it into a hole in the nearest wall, in the hope that it may be ultimately conveyed to the appointed spot, either by the services of the charitably-disposed passer-by, or by the intervention126 of the beneficent deities.
With a multiplicity of greetings and many abject127 expressions of a conscious inferiority, and attested128 by an unvarying thumb-mark.
KONG HO. (Effete branch of a pure and magnanimous trunk.)
To Kong Ah-Paik, reclining beneath the sign of the Lead Tortoise, in a northerly direction beyond the Lotus Beds outside the city of Yuen-ping. The Middle Flowery Kingdom.
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