Meanwhile the mandarin is in a most unpleasant dilemma, To seize the offending Mohammedans is beyond his power, let alone any thoughts of punishing them. 'The 'Mohammedans in this city do not number more than from one-tenth to one-third of the population, but then they pull together, have no little' political influence, and are! ready to fight. Moreover, the Buddhists confess themselves in the wrong. On the other hand to interrupt funeral rites is so heinous an offence in the eyes of Confacianists, that the offended scholar would seem from their standpoint to be only performing a sacred duty in seeking to have the young men punished. Naturally enough the official is busily engaged in endeavouring to have peace-makers patch the matter up in some way; like any modern Gallio he says he cares for none of these things, and refuses to entertain the indictment of the scholar.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.