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Rh end. Yet the Master frankly declared that had he to sail forth on a raft over the ocean, Tzŭ Lu would be the man he would choose to have with him sub isdem trabibus. He was posthumously ennobled as Duke, and his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.

Ch'ung Erh 重耳. B.C. 696-628. Personal name of the son of Duke Hsien of the Chin State. In 654 his father, at the instigation of his favourite concubine Li Chi, who wished to clear the way for her own son Hsi Ch'i, sent a eunuch to kill him; but he escaped with a few followers (see Chao Ts'ui) and took refuge among the wild tribes of the north. He remained there nineteen years, and married the daughter of one of the chiefs. In 634 he returned to his country and assumed the reins of government as Duke 文 Wên, succeeding also to leadership in the confederacy of Princes, known as the 五霸, by which the empire was swayed from B.C. 685 to B.C. 591.

Ch'ung-hou 崇厚 or 崇顔峷厚 (T. 地山). A.D. 1824-1893. A Manchu official, said to have been a lineal descendant of the Imperial House of the Chinª Tartars. Graduating as chü jen, he became a Taot'ai in Chihli in 1858, and in 1861 Superintendent of Trade for the three northern ports, to reside at Tientsin. He was occupying this post when the Tientsin Massacre occurred on the 21st June, 1870. Of all actual connivance at or participation in this tragedy he was doubtless innocent, though with a stronger man in power it would most likely not have taken place. He was sent to France with a letter of apology, which he handed to M. Thiers, being undoubtedly the first Chinese official of any rank who had ever visited the west. On his return in 1872 he was appointed Vice President of the Board of War and a member of the Tsung-li Yamên. In 1874 he was Vice President of the Board of Revenue, and in 1876 he was