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Rh the Teihs themselves. The Red tribes were trying to assert a superiority which the White would not allow, and so they were left, unsupported, to cope with Tsin for which they were by no means a match.

That great State had now consolidated its resources, and it made short work of the Red Teih. They invaded it in Seuen’s 4th and 7th years, and met with little opposition; Tsin purposely retiring before them to increase their arrogance. But in his 15th year an army entirely reduced the tribe of the Loos, and carried off their viscount Ying-urh; and next year another army similarly reduced the Këahs and the Lëw-yu. In the 3d year of Ch‘ing, Tsin and Wei joined in an invasion of the Tsëang-kaou-joo, with whom they dealt probably in the same way; for we have no further mention of the Red Teih. Wherever the Teih are mentioned after this, other circumstances show that the White Teih are meant.

[iii] The White Teih made a bolder resistance, nor was Tsin ever able to destroy the independence of the tribe of the Sëen-yu.

In the 8th year of Seuen, we find the White Teih associated with Tsin in the invasion of Ts‘in. They would seem to have broken off entirely from the Red Teih, and to have been willing to join with the State which was in deadly hostility with them. Three years after, the marquis of Tsin had a great meeting, at a place within their territories, with all their tribes.

The alliance thus formed between them and Tsin was not very lasting. In the 9th year of Ch‘ing, they are confederate with Ts‘in and Ts‘oo in invading Tsin; but they took nothing by their ﬁckleness, for Tsin inﬂicted a defeat upon them in Ch‘ing’s 12th year.

In Sëang’s 18th year, an embassy from them visited the court of Loo,—for what purpose we cannot tell. Nor are they again mentioned in the sage’s text, though the Chuen speaks frequently of them.

In Sëang's 28th year, they appear, with the States which acknowledged the presidency of Ts‘oo, visiting at the court of Tsin,—in accordance with the treaty of Sung. It would thus appear that they had gone over ﬁnally to the side of Ts‘oo. They soon suffered for their course. In Ch‘aou’s ﬁrst year, an army of Tsin, under Seun Woo, defeated them at Ta-loo. In his 12th year, the same commander put an end to the independent existence of the Fei tribe, and carried away their Viscount prisoner. So he dealt with the Koo tribe in Ch‘aou’s 15th year; but he subsequently restored its Viscount, which seems to have encouraged them to revolt again, and in Ch‘aou’s 22d year, ‘Seun Woo a second time extinguished Koo.’ 129]