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Rh "Alas!** he cried, **the Chins will have no meat left to eat.** In his despair he joined with ^ ^ J^ Ching Yen-kuang to resist the enemy; whereupon Yeh-ld T6-kuang sent an envoy in the hope of winning him back to his old views. The Emperor however was unwilling to let them meet; and the envoy, being wrongly informed as to Sang*s real sentiments, managed to procure his assassination. He was short of stature, with a long beard; but used to stand before a mirror and say, "One foot of face is worth seven of body.** At the same time, he was so hideously ugly that the very sight of him made people sweat, even in mid- winter. Seng Ch'oa j^i^. 6th cent. A.D. A. famous Buddhist priest, l^ ;^ /Cl^ • The famous Mongol general who 1072 opposed the advance of the British and French armies upon Peking in the war of 1860—61. He built a huge mud rampart to protect the city of Tientsin, which rampart has since received the name of "S6ng-ko-lin-8in*s Folly.** He himself was popularly spoken of by the British tar of the period as **Sam Collinson.** By birth a prince of the Eorchin Mongols, he first distinguished himself in 1853 against the T'ai-p'ings, who were advancing on Tientsin. He defeated the rebel forces in two battles, and succeeded in driving them off. He subsequently operated against the Nien-fei in Honau, Anhui, Eiangsu, and Hupeh. In 1864 he attacked the great rebel chief Chang Tsung-ytl at Ts^ao-chou in Shantung; but his rear failing to come up in time, he was overwhelmed by numbers and killed. A memorial shrine