while the legends at the sides are as follow:
(Right hand Legend.)
Doctrines filthy as hogs'... are brought from abroad; mock at heaven and it are not to be expiated under 4 myri arrows and 4 thousand swords.
(Left hand Legend.)
The books of witchcraft like dogs breuking wind are stinking as ordure; slander out saints and sages; revile the Rishis and the Buddhas; and ure universally execrated within me continents and the four seas, 22nd September.
P.S.—The reason I feel so especially nervous, is, because of the numbers of soldiers T believe are at present camped in and around the Settlement. I would sug-goat that the Chinese authorities should be told to send them all away to some distance, We all know that people, and would instantly take the side of those who pay best. Their presence here to my wind is the source of our greatest danger.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.