Note 101 — PART I (continued 3)
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The fact that P. de Mailla has so paraphrased the Chinese original has thus plainly been attested by the late Professor Legge. In answer to a question addressed to him on the subject, he wrote, in December 1894, to Mr. H. W. Greene, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, as follows: “In the passage from P. de Mailla’s History, that writer is both translating and paraphrasing ‘the star group Hiu.’”