The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-27


quite his daily service. That not at all Yeks
idea of bath The cabin given up 10 him and his
domestios and small pan of boiling water We all
hoped that he had clesnsed himself but when
him again he wearing his old greasy unwashed
Jacket tafu 3 ft ore
Considerable alarm at time entertained a. to
whether the great did not encourage class of para
sites not usually tolerated by great Mr. Aabsster
TO his horror unknown, but most suspicious insect
crawling within the sacred precincts OF the captains
cabin was not by the Mandarin agency that the action
OF Peter Pndars great epic reenacted board the
lnhexible. Yeks rctinue consists of cook barber
two waiting servants, and military attendant This
last person we with usual absurd practice of dgn
flying Cinnamon with European titles, call abide
camp. He Ia military Mandarin Of the sixth degree
He also dirty fellow, doing mental Offices about the
person OF his ohisf and nessing with the othesevans
upon the meats that 60 from his masters table If he
Engshmsn, should call him at best soldier
After Yek had manifested his acquaintance with
moiogy the 'aid -de-cSmp and the domestics
PEELED To wash, and some strong hints thrown out
To their master The washing grumbled ut a ty
ranny and the hints thrown away nothing was
left but TO hope almost against hope that the Mandarin
himself is free from vermn, and TO continue TO scrub the
attendants The southern Chinese are for the most
part, of Clearly habits but the northerns dirty
Yek is from Hupeh which is of the five northern
provinces.
Yek sleeps in a in the captains cabin which he
prefers TO separate sleeping berth He goes bed
about o'clock, and while reading writing, or
playing chess he sleeps the sleep of nancsn unbroken
slumber apparently undsturbed by visions of widowed
women or waing orphans. This man killer, after say
ing his hundred thousand human beings enjoys
sleep than innocent London alderman after turtle
dinner rs
But, although great Mandarin is at peace with his
Chinese conscience he evident horror of his
living countrymcn He has lost face with Them and
the greatest fear he has the being made exhibition
TO Chinese rabble We malicious enough to ask
whether he would like to go to the Hong Kong
He answered. just the father of serious family might
| had ne of ais famil
to go to races. .gatau eaFtlf
On Monday, the 23d of February the Inhexibe
steamed out of Hong Kong harbor and Yek might,
he had pleased have taken his last look for time of
the shores of his native land II he felt any of the bit
terness of exile he successful in conceang it for
he was entirely occupied in smoking his pipe and set
Ting himself comfortably few minutes after and we
had rounded the Green island and the steamer danced to
the piping of the strong northwest was on
deck Watching the familiar objects of the harbor they
receded and thinking regretully that friendships
which most valued there had been dimmed by the
strong line had felt my duty to take upon pub
lie questions when sounds through the cabin sky
light like the strains and groans of Etna. ~ @a~
For three days this condition of things continued
Judging from the sounds the Vceroy might be throwing
up his provinces of Ouang and Quangtung It must
he admitted however that he struggled manfully with
his malady 10 use his own expression his stomach
excrucated, and his bowels required nursing but he
manifested all a Chinaman courage of endurance On
fourth day he returned to his pipe and required
his slowly cook to prepare him breakfast He
beef, for it is written by Confucius sThou shalt Not
slaughter the laboring Ok This is superstition
but ethical and economical observance It is migrate
u to slaughter the animal that produces rice and it is
contrary to Chinese notions of good policy kill
lures that till the earth Yek does not drink milk nor
will he cat biscuits prepared with milk but he explains
that this is not because he is Buddhist for that many
who arc not Buddhsts do not drink milk while the
Buddhsts of Mantchouria are fond Of it (which
very much doubt-he is of any religion he belongs TO
that higher sectcf Buddhiss who above all forms Of
abstinence worship and place their devotion in
intense inner aspirations for perfection.
p Az he recovered from his sea-sickness he grew more
communicative and conversational than he had ever been
before AZ left Singapore harbor he looked like man
who had had q load removed from his mind believe
his feeling that he had got away for time from his
countrymen, and longer in danger of meet
ing the people in whose eyes he had slost face He
talked huenty upon every subject to which we led
him. and shall beat convey his opinions by transcrbg
these conversations discurpivey noted them. Let
remark here once for ALL that Mr. Alahaster is so
far AZ my experience goes unique instance Of youth
who has learnt TO converssHuently in Mandarin after
only two years study In esms of philosophy and art
difficulties of translation must of necossty occur; but
apart from these never bear the interpreter obliged
ask Yek to repeat what he has sd and very rarely find
that Yek requires the interpreter to repeat Il consider
myself very fortunate in my medium Of Conversation with
this great Confucian. t9SI4a oAdH4 e0lEda b9apihh
The topic upon which Yek talks most freely his sue
cess In putting down the rebellion In Quangtung He
insists that there no chief of These rebels and
that their only objects rape aud robbery He ays
that the persons executed by hs order lO0
and he reluctantly admits that he was unable to exrpa
the whole class He Is able to estimate the numbers he
sent TO execution because he obliged to make peri
odcl repos 70 Pekn Of the progress the work Of ex
Stermnaton The ordinary rule Of Chinese law is that
criminal be put 10 death without the special war
rant of the Emperor but this extraordinary case
He was armed with general warrant to destroy rebels
and he reported his proceedings under it, He declares
that no individual was put to death without being
viously examined by him. 60 .fF ssser.VI
asked Why if the philosophy Of confucus was sui.