Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 16: January February, 1885
The character tan 75? Signifying an egg, is also defined as the name of a tribe of aborigines. It is a term of universal application in abusive language, as in English a person is sometimes colloquially spoken of as 'a bad egg.' Yet it may also be employed in a good sense, as when the solitary child of his father's old age, is Spoken of as a 'phoenix egg' (is a 4 a H a).
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