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Rh In B.C.770 they made common cause with the marquis of Shin, and joined him in his measures against king Yëw. Then, contrary to the wishes of the marquis, they gave the reins to their own greed of plunder, spoiled the capital,—the old capital of Fung, and put the king to death. Tsin and Ts‘in came to the relief of the court, and drove the Jung away; but some branches of them appear to have maintained themselves in the more eastern regions which they had found so attractive. In the 2d year of Min, the duke of Kwoh defeated them near the junction of the Wei with the Ho, and again, in the second year of He, at a place in the present district of Wăn-hëang, Shen Chow, Shan-se. This is the last we hear of them. Their original territory, no doubt, fell to the lot of Ts‘in, but any portion of the tribe, which had settled on the east of the Ho, would be absorbed by Tsin.

[vii.] There were the ‘Le Jung,’ who occupied in the present district of Lin-t‘ung, department Se-gan. According to the Chuen on III, xxviii. l, duke Hëen of Tsin invaded their territory, the chief of which, who had the title of baron, gave him his daughter in marriage. She was the Le Ke whose union with Hëen was the occasion of so much confusion and misery in Tsin. That State, soon after, put an end to the independent existence of the tribe.

The above are all the tribes of the Jung mentioned in the Ch‘un Ts‘ëw and in Tso, excepting the Loo Jung, of whom I shall have to speak when we come to the Man of the South. Neither the sage not his commentator had occasion to bring forward any others, for only these made their appearance in connexion with the States of China during the Ch‘un-Ts‘ëw period, There were, however, many more tribes, which constituted, properly speaking, the Jung of the west, by the absorption of which it was that Ts‘in reached such an eminence of power.

Second, of the Teih. Sze-ma Ts‘ëen and Too Yu, the latter led away probably by Sze-ma, place some tribes of these on the west of the Ho; but so far as the evidence of Confucius and Tso-shi goes, they are all to be sought on the east of that river, and appear extending from it, along the north of the different States, as far as the present Shan-tung. Up to the time of duke Seuen, we read in the text only of the Teih, but subsequently there appear two great divisions of them,—the ‘Red Teih,’ and the ‘White Teih.’ Then the Red Teih are no more mentioned after the third year of duke 126]