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Rh Ch‘ing, and the extinction of several tribes of them is recorded; but the White continued beyond the Ch‘un-Ts‘ëw period, and one tribe of them held its own till the time of the Warring States, when its chief took the title of king, and contended with the other combatants for the possession of all the dominions of Chow.

Of the Red Teih six tribes seem to be speciﬁed:—the ‘Kaou-lohs of the eastern hills,’ whose seat was the present district of Yuen-k‘euh, Këang Chow, Shan-se; the Ts'ëang-kaou-joo, whose seat is unknown; the ‘Loos,’ who have left their name in the district of Loo-shing, department Loo-gan, Shan-se; the ‘Keahs,’ who occupied in the present district of Ke-tsih, department Kwang-p‘ing, Chih-le; the ‘Lëw-yu,’ in the present district of T‘un-lëw, department Loo-gan above; and the ‘Toh-shin,’ who were also somewhere in the same department.

Of the White Teih there were three tribes:—the ‘Seen-yu,’ or the ‘Chung-shan,’ in the present district of Ching-ting, department Ching-ting, Chih-le; the ‘Fei,’ in Kaoutshing district of the same department; and the ‘Koo,’ in Tsin Chow, also in Ching-ting.

I will now give an outline of what is related about the Teih in the text and in Tso.

[i.] While there is no intimation of any general distinction among their tribes.

They appear first in the 32d year of Chwang, invading the small State of Hing, which was by no means able to cope with them. Ts‘e went in the ﬁrst place to its rescue, but in the ﬁrst year of He Hing removed its principal city to a situation where it would be more out of the way of the Teih, and the forces of Ts‘e, Sung, and Ts‘aou are introduced as fortifying the new capital.

About the same time the Teih attacked the more considerable State of Wei, and nearly annihilated it. In the 2d year of Min, they took its chief city, the inhabitants of which ﬂed across the Ho. There only 730 people, men and women, could be got together again, and when to them were added the inhabitants of the two other chief towns of the State, the whole did not amount to more than 5,000 souls. This gives us a correct, but not an exalted idea, of the resources of many of the States of Chow in those days. Ts‘e went to the help of Wei, as it had done in the case of Hing, gathered up the ruins of the State, and called out the other States to prepare a new Capital for it.

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