And to reason it stood that the individual in immaculate white must possess many changes and command the labour of laundresses to keep his changes immaculate.

As for the yang-bans who wore the pale, vari-coloured silks, they were beyond such common yardstick of place.
After resting in an inn for several days, during which time we washed our garments and repaired the ravages of shipwreck and travel, we were summoned before the Emperor.

In the great open space before the palace wall were colossal stone dogs that looked more like tortoises.

They crouched on massive stone pedestals of twice the height of a tall man.
The walls of the palace were huge and of dressed stone.

So thick were these walls that they could defy a breach from the mightiest of cannon in a year-long siege.