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attempt to set aside the Heir Apparent; but LtL Tnan teised the traitor, and kept. him locked np in a library while he himself invested the Emperor Chin Tsung, who afterwards raised him to the rank of Lord High Chamberlain. The Emperor T^ai Tsang used to say of him that he was a fool in small matters but not in great ones. Canonised as Jf^ ^.

1460 LtL Wdn-ohing g ^ )JS (T. i^ ^ ). Commonly known as Captain Leeboo or Lew Buah. A native of Fahkien, he b^^an life as table-boy to the British Consul at Shanghai who sent him to Scotland to be educated. Having acquired some knowledge of English, he served as interpreter on expeditions against pirates. Picking up a little navigation, he was employed on board the first Foochow gunboats; and in 1881, while in command of a vessel, he rescued the captain and crew of the Annie S. Ball^ wrecked on the ]p^ T'ai-chou group. He has several medals, etc.f presented for similar services. When the French vessels opened fire at Pagoda Island on August 23rd 1884, Leeboo, who was in command of a transport, wisely slipped his cable and escaped up stream, thus saving his ship. He was, however, most harshly treated, being banished to the post-roads for cowardice. He returned from Kalgan to Tientsin in February 1889. In 1895, having been in command of the Armstrong mosquito-gunboat ChSn-pei during the Japanese attack on Wei-hai-wei, he was again degraded for trial. He has always shown himself most courteous to foreigners, among whom he has many friends.

1461 Lfl Yen g ^ (T. ^;|^ ^ ). Bom about A.D. 750. Graduated as chin ahih about 770, after which he became a recluse on Mt. Hua in Shensi, under the name of )^ ^ -^. There he fell in with the philosopher Ghung-Ii Ch^iian, who taught him the secrets of Taoism, aud at fifty he attained to immortality. He is ranked among the Eight Immortals (see Chung^li Ch^iian\ and is conmionly