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I thought I read somewhere that Tharkay was part Chinese and part British. He is certainly part Chinese based on what I've read in BPW but I think now I might be making up the British part. Can anyone else find a reference? -- [[User:Strangerface|Strangerface]] 11:57, 3 December 2006 (PST) | I thought I read somewhere that Tharkay was part Chinese and part British. He is certainly part Chinese based on what I've read in BPW but I think now I might be making up the British part. Can anyone else find a reference? -- [[User:Strangerface|Strangerface]] 11:57, 3 December 2006 (PST) | ||
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| + | Black Powder War: George Staunton in Macao, describing Tharkay to Laurence and Granby: "His father was a gentleman, I believe a senior officer, and took some pains with his education; but still the man can not be called reliable, for all the polish of his manners. His mother was a native woman, Thibetan or Nepalese, or something like; and he has spent the better part of his life in the wild places of the earth." [[User:Rose|Rose]] 17:23, 28 November 2008 (PST) | ||
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I thought I read somewhere that Tharkay was part Chinese and part British. He is certainly part Chinese based on what I've read in BPW but I think now I might be making up the British part. Can anyone else find a reference? -- Strangerface 11:57, 3 December 2006 (PST)
Black Powder War: George Staunton in Macao, describing Tharkay to Laurence and Granby: "His father was a gentleman, I believe a senior officer, and took some pains with his education; but still the man can not be called reliable, for all the polish of his manners. His mother was a native woman, Thibetan or Nepalese, or something like; and he has spent the better part of his life in the wild places of the earth." Rose 17:23, 28 November 2008 (PST)
