NOTE 12. - "The sons of the dead, wearing hempen clothes as badges of
mourning, kneel down," etc. (Doolittle, p. 138.)
NOTE 13. - These practices have been noticed, supra, Bk. I. ch. xl.
NOTE 14. - This custom has come down to modern times. In Pauthier's Chine
Moderne, we find extracts from the statutes of the reigning dynasty and
the comments thereon, of which a passage runs thus: "To determine the
exact population of each province the governor and the lieutenant-governor
cause certain persons who are nominated as Pao-kia, or Tithing-Men, in
all the places under their jurisdiction, to add up the figures inscribed
on the wooden tickets attached to the doors of houses, and exhibiting the
number of the inmates" (p. 167).
Friar Odoric calls the number of fires 89 tomans; but says 10 or 12
households would unite to have one fire only!
[1] In the first edition, my best authority on this matter was a lecture
on the city by the late Rev. D.D. Green, an American Missionary at
Ningpo, which is printed in the November and December numbers for 1869
of the (Fuchau) Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal.
