naman may love you, but you are a devil all the same. It is most
natural that he should think so. For generation upon generation China
was almost completely isolated from the rest of the world. The people of
her vast empire grew up under influences unchanged by contact with other
peoples. Their ideals became stereotyped from want of other ideals to
compare with, and possibly modify, their own. Dignity of deportment
and impassivity of demeanour were especially cultivated by the ruling
classes. Then the foreign devil burst upon the scene--a being as
antagonistic to themselves in every way as it is possible to conceive.
We can easily see, from pictures, not intended to be caricatures, what
were the chief features of the foreigner as viewed by the Chinaman. Red
hair and blue eyes, almost without exception; short and extremely tight
clothes; a quick walk and a mobility of body, involving ungraceful
positions either sitting or standing; and with an additional feature
which the artist could not portray--an unintelligible language
resembling the twittering of birds. Small wonder that little children
are terrified at these strange beings, and rush shrieking into their
cottages as the foreigner passes by. It is perhaps not quite so easy to
understand why the Mongolian pony has such a dread of the foreigner and
usually takes time to get accustomed to the presence of a barbarian;
some ponies, indeed, will never allow themselves to be mounted unless
blindfolded. Then there are the dogs, who rush out and bark, apparently
without rhyme or reason, at every passing foreigner. The Chinese have a
saying that one dog barks at nothing and the rest bark at him; but that
will hardly explain the unfailing attack so familiar to every one who
has rambled through country villages. The solution of this puzzle was
extracted with difficulty from an amiable Chinaman who explained that
what the animals, and indeed his fellow-countrymen as well, could
not help noticing, was the frowzy and very objectionable smell of
all foreigners, which, strangely enough, is the very accusation which
foreigners unanimously bring against the Chinese themselves.

Compare these characteristics with the universal black hair and black
eyes of men and women throughout China, exclusive of a rare occasional
albino; with the long, flowing, loose robes of officials and of the
well-to-do; with their slow and stately walk and their rigid formality
of position, either sitting or st