Note 2 — Chapter XLI · THE ENTRANCE OF THE FRENCH MISSIONARIES—1835–1845.

So fearless and generous a soul as Andrew Kim, who could yet follow the ethics and example of his teachers in repeatedly practising deception and violating his country’s laws at Ai-chiu, scrupled not to lie to the mandarin at Shanghae, and tell him that he and his crew had been accidentally driven out to sea. As in the later case of the robbery of the regent’s tomb, “the end justified the means.” ↑