."Few races are blessed with energy as great as the Chinese," wrote Gamier,
who never marveled ill such detail over new sights and discoveries
during his voyage asmuch as he did inYunnan (Garnier 1996 I, 117).
Indeed he thought that the Europeans could learn from the Chinese in building more gracious cities (because of the latter's elegant roofs) and embanking rivers for agricultural purposes (ibid., 113, 146).