Admitted freely into Australia, the Chinese would starve out the Englishman, in accordance with the law of currency--that of two currencies in a country the baser will always supplant the better.

"In Victoria," says Professor Pearson, "a single trade--that of furniture-making--was taken possession of and ruined for white men within the space of something like five years." In the small colony of Victoria there are 9377 Chinese in a population of 1,150,000; in all China, with its population of 350,000,000, there are only 8081 foreigners (Dyer Ball), a large proportion of whom are working for China's salvation.
There is not room for both in Australia.

Which is to be our colonist, the Asiatic or the Englishman?
In the morning we had another beautiful walk round the snow-clad mountains to the village of Yangpi, at the back of Tali.

There was a long delay here.

News of my arrival spread, and the people hurried along to see me.