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head aud an enormous indemnity. On Jan. 15, 1873, his family haying all committed suicide, the Sultan passed for the last time through the crowded streets of Ta-li on his way to the camp of Ts^en Yd-ying. He arrived there senseless, having taken poison before setting forth. His corpse was beheaded and his head was forwarded to Yflnnan Fu and thence in a jar of honey to Peking. His dying request to the Imperialist general was "Spare the people!"

Tu Yu ;j^ -(^ (T. # ^). Died A.D. 812. A native of Wan-nien 2070 in Shensi, who rose to be President of the Board of Works. Author of the 1^ -^, an elaborate treatise on the constitution , divided into eight sections under Political Economy, Examinations and Degrees, Government 0£Sces, Rites, Music, Military Discipline, Geography, and National Defences. Ennobled as Duke, and canonised

Tu Yil ;J^ ^. A descendant of the Yellow Emperor, who ruled 2071 under the Ghou dynasty over the region now known as Sstich^uan and was locally styled ^ ^ Wang Ti. His territory having been overwhelmed by a flood, he owed the recovery of the dry land to the exertions of a personage named |^ ^ Pieh Ling, who cut a passage through the Wu mountains and drained ofi* the water. This passage is now known as the famou9 Wu Gorge on the Yang-tsze, and is 700 li in length. Tu Yfi at once resigned the throne to his deliverer. and went into retirement, where he prosecuted his studies with such success that he was finally changed into a goatsucker or nightjar.

TuYil j^^ {T. JC ill)- A.D. 222-284. A native of Tu-Ung 2072 in Shensi, who inherited the title of Marquis and rose to high office under the first Emperor of the Chin dynasty. Yang Hu on his deathbed recommended that he should be employed in his own stead in the subjugation of the Wu dynasty, a task which he carried

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