He says that in this city there are a great number of temples, to which Europeans usually apply the name of pagoda. Some of these are small, and consist of a single chamber; others stand in a court surrounded by corridors, at the extremity of which the ting, or idols, are placed.

A good few indeed, my man, replied the captain. Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton.

The story of the princess's affair caused a furor among journalists.

Yet, in contradiction to all these very plausible presumptions, even this remote period teems with its own peculiar and separate instruction.