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Rh performed, aud 400 jonks with 20,000 men surrendered, while Chang Pao also entrapped a rival chief. For this success Po-ling was ennobled. In 1811 he returned sick to Peking, but soon afterwards was sent to Nanking to attend to the Yellow River. Canonised as

Po Lo. The sobriquet of a famous horse-trainer, named 1061 Sun Yang, who lived in the early ages and is mentioned by Ohuang Tzti.

Po Ya, A famous lute-player of old, who when young 1663 studied under a teacher known as Chêng Lien. The latter carried him to the Isles of the Blest, in order to get his musical sense improved. He was afterwards thrown into the society of a wood-cutter, named Chung Tzt&-ch4 who was such an excellent connoisseur of music that when Po Ya played hills he could see Mt. T^ai rise up before his eyes, and when he played water he could see the headlong torrent dashing down. At Chung*s death, Po Ya broke his lute and never played again.

Po-yen. A.D. 1237-1295. A Mongol chieftain, who after 1663 a youth spent in Central Asia became Minister under Kublai Khan and aided his master in completing the conquest of the Chinese empire. In 1274 he crossed the Yang-tsze and captured 0-chou, the modern Wu-ch'ang in Hupeh. In 1275 he took Ch'ang-chou in Eiangsu; and in the following year Hangchow, the capital, surrendered and the Sung Emperor sought safety in flight. Just before his death a great meteor fell in the north-west, and rain turned to ice. He had a fine martial appearance; his plans were deep-laid, and he was decisive in action. He led an army 200,000 strong as though it had been one man, and his lieutenants looked up to him as a god. Marco Polo speaks of him as "a Baron whose name was Bayan Chingsan, which is as much as to say Bayan Hundred-Eyes" The word "Bayan" really signifies great or noble,