Note 282 — Chapter VII · THE CHINESE
Reading edition
“Gunpowder ... among the Chinese,” in Journal of North China Branch of Roy. Asiatic Soc., N.S. vi., 1869-70, p. 74, by W. F. Mayers, F.R.A.S., Chinese Consular Service. “Gunpowder came from the outer barbarians,” says the Wuh-li-siao, published in 1630.