[26] Hong-Kong Gazette, October 12, 1855.

[27] Intervention and Non-Intervention, by A. G. Stapleton.

[28] Official Papers of the Chinese Legation.  Berlin:  T. Calvary & Co., Oberwasser Square. 1870.

[29] From Hue’s “Christianity in China.”

[30] Now usually written Sakoontala or Sakuntala.

[31] To avoid multiplying footnotes, we refer here to the chief sources on which we rely in this chapter. C.  Lassen, Indische Altherthumskunde; Max Mueller, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature (and other works); J.  Muir, Sanskrit Texts; Pictet, Les Origines Indo-Europeennes; Sir William Jones, Works, 13 vols.; Vivian de Saint-Martin, Etude, &c., and articles in the Revue Germanique; Monier Williams, Sakoontala (a new translation), the Ramayana, and the Maha Bharata; Horace Hayman Wilson, Works (containing the Vischnu Purana, &c.); Burnouf, Essai sur la Veda, Le Bhagavata Purana; Stephenson, the Sanhita of the Sama Veda; Ampere, La Science en Orient; Bunsen, Gott in der Geschichte; Shea and Troyer, The Dabistan; Hardwick, Christ and other Masters; J.  Talboys Wheeler, History of India from the Earliest Times; Works published by the Oriental Translation Fund; Max Duncker, Die Geschichte der Arier; Rammohun Roy, The Veds; Mullens, Hindoo Philosophy.

[32] “The soul knows no persons.”—­EMERSON.

[33] All Indian dates older than 300 B.C. are uncertain.  The reasons for this one are given carefully and in full by Pictet.

[34] Our English word daughter, together with the Greek [Greek:  thygater], the Zend dughdar, the Persian docktar, &c., corresponds with the Sanskrit duhitar, which means both daughter and milkmaid.

[35] Hatchet, in Sanskrit takshani, in Zend tasha, in Persian tosh, Greek [Greek:  tochos], Irish tuagh, Old German deksa, Polish tasalc, Russian tesaku. And what is remarkable, the root tak appears in the name of the hatchet in the languages of the South Sea Islanders and the North American Indians.

[36] M. Vivien de Saint-Martin has determined more precisely than has been done before the primitive country of the Aryans, and the route followed by them in penetrating into India.  They descended through Cabul to the Punjaub, having previously reached Cabul from the region between the Jaxartes and the Oxus.

[37] The Rig-Veda distinguishes the Aryans from the Dasjus.  Mr. Muir quotes a multitude of texts in which Indra is called upon to protect the former and slay the latter.

[38] Agni, whence Ignis, in Latin.

[39] See Talboys Wheeler, “History of India.”