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Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1

Note 285 — Chapter XII

William Hazlitt translation

The Thibetians call the English in Hindostan, Péling, a word signifying stranger, and equivalent to the Chinese y-jin, which the Europeans translate, barbarian, probably with the notion of flattering their self-love by the implied contrast.

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