Note 1 — Chapter XL · PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM—1801–1834.
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“Some priests proposed to the late Queen of Portugal to send an embassy hither [to Corea] with some gentlemen versed in mathematics, that they might benefit the country both in a religious and scientific way.… This plan never succeeded.” Gutzlaff, 1834. Voyages to China, page 261. ↑