This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...his messengers that whenever he should send an ambassador to the Czar he would stand uncovered before him, although in China none but condemned criminals exposed their heads bare, and should perform all the other ceremonies customary at Moscow. No sooner had they arrived at these words than the chief mandarin ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...his messengers that whenever he should send an ambassador to the Czar he would stand uncovered before him, although in China none but condemned criminals exposed their heads bare, and should perform all the other ceremonies customary at Moscow. No sooner had they arrived at these words than the chief mandarin instantly took off his cap before the ambassador, and the latter, being thus satisfied, promised to perform the prostrations according to Chinese custom,1 and also to place the letter upon the table in sight of the Emperor sitting on his throne, so that one of the courtiers might afterwards convey it to His Majesty.2 The mandarin further stated that the ambassador had the imperial permission to repair to, the gate of the palace in the same state in which he had entered Peking. 1 See Memoirs of Father Ripa during Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of Peking, etc. (F. Prandi's translation), p. 115 et seq., and John Bell, A Journey from St. Petersburg in Russia to Pekin in China, p. 264 et seq. The audience took place on the 9th of December, at a place about six miles westward from Peking,3 whither the ambassador and his suite repaired on horseback. Count Ismailoff and the ninety men of his suite were kept waiting, first for half an hour in a small building where they drank 1 One of the Jesuits residing at Peking at the time says that the Emperor ordered a high officer to perform before the letter of the Czar the same prostrations the Russian envoy would have to make hefore him; after which the Russian did, not hesitate to go through the prescribed ceremony of kotowing. See Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, in, 308. 1 Bell's account differs somewhat from that given above, which is taken from Father Ripa's narrative. Bell's dates are in...
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