[G]ood Nature may be ſetled in them [children] into a Habit, and they may take pleaſure and pique themſelves in being kind, liberal, and civil to others.

A waxed line is middled, and a loose loop laid around one strand, then both ends are brought out at the opposite cuntline.

Mats of low-growing sandbells thrive on otherwise barren strips of roadside.

SEPTEMBER 10 Conference with Madame. She went in to Ti Hua ³⁵ and did the dickering with the Sinkiang governor. Got him back in the fold. [He] hadn't been out of his yamen [courtyard] in six years. Heavily guarded. All [his] servants wear two guns. Suspicious of poison, examines wine corks before drinking, looks melons all over to see if they've been needled. Ti Hua a dump. Looks like a bedraggled old tart, says Madame.]