thinking that the author has been frequently too paraphrastical,
and that in various places he must be utterly unintelligible to the
Mandchous from having unnecessarily made use of words which are not
Mandchou, and with which the Tartars cannot be acquainted.

What must they think, for example, on coming to the sentence . . .
APKAI ETCHIN NI POROFIYAT, I.E. the prophet of the Lord of heaven?
For the last word in the Mandchou quotation being a modification of
a Greek word, with no marginal explanation, renders the whole dark
to a Tartar. [Greek text which cannot be recorded]; APKAI I know,
and ETCHIN I know, but what is POROFIYAT, he will say. Now in
Tartar, there are words synonymous with our seer, diviner, or
foreteller, and I feel disposed to be angry with the translator for
not having used one of these words in preference to modifying
[Greek text]; and it is certainly unpardonable of him to have
Tartarized [Greek text] into . . . ANGUEL, when in Tartar there is
a word equal to our messenger, which is the literal translation of
[Greek text]. But I will have done with finding fault, and proceed
to the more agreeable task of answering your letter.

My brother's address is as follows:
Don Juan Borrow,
Compagnia Anglo Mexicana,
Guanajuato, Mexico.

When you write to him, the letter must be put in post before the
third Wednesday of the month, on which day the Mexican letter-
packet is made up. I suppose it is unnecessary to inform you that
the outward postage of all foreign letters must be paid at the
office, but I wish you particularly to be aware that it will be