Volume 1
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, 1844-1846 / translated by William Hazlitt; now edited with an introduction by Professor Paul Pelliot.
- Évariste Régis Huc
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, 1844-1846 / translated by William Hazlitt; now edited with an introduction by Professor Paul Pelliot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![apostatize, have been exiled from all the provinces of China. The missionary who should obtain per¬ mission to exercise his zeal in the Torgot would doubt¬ less have to undergo great privations during his journey thither ; but he would be amply compensated, by the thought of carrying the succour of religion to all those generous confessors of the faith, whom the tyranny of the Chinese government has sent to die in these distant regions. To the south-weft of Torgot is the province of Khachghar [Kashgar]. At the present day, this diftridf cannot at all be considered a part of Mongolia. Its inhabitants have neither the language, nor the physiognomy, nor the coftume, nor the religion, nor the manners of the Mongols; they are Moslems. The Chinese, as well as the Tartars, call them Hoei- Hoei [Hui-hui], a name by which they designate the Mussulmen who dwell in the interior of the Chinese empire. This description of Khachghar is also applicable to the people to the south of the Celeftial Mountains, in the Chinese tongue called Tien-Chan [T’ien-shan], and in Mongol, Bokte-oula “ holy mountains ”. Not long since, the Chinese government, had to suftain a terrible war againft Khachghar. We are indebted for the following details to some military Mandarins who accompanied this famous and diftant expedition. The Court of Peking kept in Khachghar two grand Mandarins, with the title of Delegates Extraordinary (Kin-Tchai [Cb’in-cb’ai]), who were charged to guard the frontiers and to keep an eye on the movements of the neighbouring people. These Chinese officers, inftead of merely watching, exercised their power with such horrible and revolting tyranny that they wore out the patience of the people of Khachghar, who, at length, rose in a body, and massacred all the Chinese](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3135953x_0001_0381.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
