However, we were most graciously received by His Highness, who paid no sort of attention to anyone but myself on account of my great size. It is a laughable fact that, in China, and all those regions, it is a recommendation to the highest offices of State, and which is a proof of the admirable policy of the Chinese, and which alone has preserved China in peace and prosperity a thousand ages, before which all other Empires and Dynasties have passed away. "Fat, sleek-headed men that!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.