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Rh and the King and Queen go back to their palace. Seven or eight li to the west of this city there is a monastery called the Wang-hsin Temple. It took eighty years to build, and the reigns of three Kings before it was completed. It may be two hundred and fifty feet high, and is ornamentally carved and inlaid, and covered with gold and silver. All kinds of jewels combine to complete (its magnificence). Behind the tower there is an oratory, decorated most splendidly. The beams, pillars, folding doors, and windows, are all gilt. Besides this there are apartments for the priests, also beautifully ornamented beyond all expression. All the kings of the six countries to the east of the hills make large offerings of whatsoever very valuable jewels they may have, using very few themselves.

The processions of the fourth moon being over, one of the party, Sêng Shao, set out with a Tartar Buddhist