Note 534 — CVII. THE FISHERMAN AND HIS FRIEND.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
As there are good and bad foxes, so may devils be beneficent or malicious according to circumstances; and Chinese apologists for the discourtesy of the term “foreign devils,” as applied to Europeans and Americans alike, have gone so far as to declare that in this particular instance the allusion is to the more virtuous among the denizens of the Infernal Regions. return to text