Their mosque is well cared for and unusually clean.

In the centre, within the main doorway, as in every mosque in the empire, is a gilt tablet of loyalty to the living Emperor.

"May the Emperor reign ten thousand years!" it says, a token of subjection which the mosques of Yunnan have especially been compelled to display since the insurrection.
At the time of my visit an aged mollah was teaching Arabic and the Koran to a ragged handful of boys.

He spoke to me through an interpreter, and gave me the impression of having some little knowledge of things outside the four seas that surround China.

I told him that I had lived under the shelter of two of the greatest mosques, but he seemed to question my contention that the mosque in Cordova and the Karouin mosque in Fez are even more noble in their proportions than his mosque in Chaotong.