ing with the reign of Tchao-Wang,
of the dynasty of the Tcheou, was filled with gladness. Thereupon he
dispatched the officers Tsa-In and Thsin-King, the man-of-letters,
Wang-Tsun, and fifteen other persons, into the west, to obtain
information respecting the doctrine of Buddha.

"In the 10th year (A.D. 67), Tsa-In and the rest, having arrived in
Central India, among the great Youei-Tchi, met with Kas'yamatanga and
Tcho-Fa-Lan, and procured a statute of Buddha, and books in the
language of Fan (Fan-Lan-Mo, or Brahma, that is to say, in Sanscrit),
and conveyed them on a white horse to the city Yo-Lang.
Kas'yamatanga and Tcho-Fa-Lan, paid a visit to the emperor, attired
as religious persons, and were lodged in the Hong-Lon-Sse, called
also Sse-Pin-Sse (Hotel of the Strangers).

"In the 11th year (A.D. 68), the emperor ordered the construction of
the monastery of the White Horse, outside the gate Yong-Mon, west of
the city of Lo-Yang. Matanga there translated the 'Sacred Book of
Forty-two Articles.' Six years after, Tsa-In and Tcho-Fa-Lan
converted certain Tao-Sse to Buddhism. Rising afterwards into
celestial space, they caused the king to hear the following verses:--

"'The fox is not of the race of the lions. The lamp has not the
brightness of the sun or moon. The lake cannot be compared with the
sea; the hills cannot be compared with the lofty mountains.

"'The cloud of prayer spreading over the surface of the earth, its
beneficial dew fecundating the germs of happiness, and the divine
rites operating everywhere marvellous changes, all the nations will
advance according to the laws of reintegration.'"

Our first days at Tchogortan were entirely devoted to the translation of
the "Book of Buddha;" but we soon found ourselves compelled to devote a
portion of our time to the occupations of pastoral life. We had remarked
that every evening our animals had returned half-starved, that instead of
growing fatter and fatter, they were daily becoming leaner and leaner:
the simple reason was that Samdadchiemba took no sort of pains to find
pasturage for them. After driving them out somewhere or other, he cared
not whither, he would leave them to themselves on some arid hillside, and
himself go to sleep in the sun, or stroll about chattering and
tea-drinking in the black tents. It was to no purpose we lectured him;
he wen