Barometer mometer in shade and instil into him orally their ideas of progress, though personal explanation may be sometimes desirable. The object was to put ourselves in a proper position before the Chinese people, to prove to them by the circumstances of the Audience that the fiction of Chinese supremacy over the rest of the world was upset, that their Emperor was only one Sovereign among others, and that he himself recognised the fact. We had treated their susceptibilities in the meantime with the most delicate consideration. For thirteen years since Lord Elgin and Baron Gros dictated terms of peace in their capital, we have more or less allowed the Chinese to hug the illusion that their Emperor was the one Monarch and their country the Sikbim The Arctic Expedition one civilised Kingdom of the world.
At last, the time came when the utmost Law Reronts—(oficially revised)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.