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The 'Old foreigner from India.', The 'Old foreigner from India' came from the West at the Time of the Martial Emperor of the Jin(3rd Century AD). He met two tigers stroked their heads. Men marvelled that he had travelled over 9000 Li(Chinese miles-approx 3000 miles), but one day he vanished with the Daoists/Taoists into the ether. Image taken from Daoist/Taoist folding album, A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. Originally published in China, 1750. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/BRITISH LIBRARY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)