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Rh tribes on the western frontier. He is said to have defeated a Tartar general by covering the sides of a pass with lodestone, the result being that his mail-clad adversaries were unable to move either backwards or forwards and were all put to the sword. Ma Shih Huang ]^ $S6 M.-^ legendary physician, who flourished 1480 under the Yellow Emperor, B.C. 2968. He once cured a sick dragon of disease of the throat, and was forthwith carried off to heaven on its back.

Ma-SSU-la i^ ^ P|f • I>ied A.D. 1778. Son of Mi-ssH-han. He 1481 distinguished himself in the expedition against Galdan and was made a Minister of the Council, but was afterwards degraded for remissness on the frontier. Canonised as J^ ^.

Ma Su ]^ ||£ (T. m t^ and 3^ ^ ). A native of Shantung. 1482 Graduated as chin ahih in 1659, and entered upon an official career. His chief distinction was however won as an author, by his work on the Tso Chuan, and by a critical history of China from the earliest times down to the close of the Ch4n dynasty, B.C. 206 , the plates of which were purchased for the Imperial Library in 1706.

Ma Sui ,B| ^ (T. fKl H). Died A.D. 796. A native of ]sl$i|g 1483 Ghia-ch^£ng in Honan, whose talents attracted the notice of the Emperor Tai Tsung of the T'ang dynasty, under whom he rose to be President of the Board of War. He anticipated the rebellion of T4en THeh in 781, and inflicted upon him a severe defeat. He put down the rebellion of Li Huai-kuang in 785, receiving for these services the highest honours. He urged upon the Emperor the desirability of concluding a treaty with the Turfan, but when Hun Chan was nearly kidnapped at the preliminary meeting, the Smperor took away his command and appointed him to the Board of Civil Office. He was ennobled as Prince, and canonised as ^ ]^. Ma Te-hsing || ^ J^. A.D. 1791-1874. A Mahomedan of 1484