So the travellers found it in all the kingdoms through which
they went on their way from this to the west, only that each had its own
peculiar barbarous speech. The monks, however, who had given up the
worldly life and quitted their families, were all students of Indian
books and the Indian language. Here they stayed for about a month, and
then proceeded on their journey, fifteen days' walking to the northwest
bringing them to the country of Woo-e. In this also there were more than
four thousand monks, all students of the hinayana. They were very strict
in their rules, so that Sramans from the territory of Ts'in were all
unprepared for their regulations. Fa-hien, through the management of Foo
Kung-sun, _maitre d'hotellerie_, was able to remain with his company in
the monastery where they were received for more than two months, and
here they were rejoined by Pao-yun and his friends. At the end of that
time the people of Woo-e neglected the duties of propriety and
righteousness, and treated the strangers in so niggardly a manner that
Che-yen, Hwuy-keen, and Hwuy-wei went back towards Kao-ch'ang, hoping to
obtain there the means of continuing their journey. Fa-hien and the
rest, however, through the liberality of Foo Kung-sun, managed to go
straight forward in a southwest direction. They found the country
uninhabited as they went along.
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