12. Petit de la Croix (Vie de Gengiscan, 1. iii. c. 7)
represents the full glory and extent of the Mogul chase. The
Jesuits Gerbillon and Verbiest followed the emperor Kamhi
when he hunted in Tartary (Du Halde, Description de la
Chine, tom. iv. p. 81, 290, etc., folio edit.). His
grandson, Kienlong, who unites the Tartar discipline with
the laws and learning of China, describes (Eloge de Moukden,
p. 273-285), as a poet, the pleasures which he had often
enjoyed as a sportsman