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Rh ridiculous story about his interpreting the lowing of a cow. His visit, no doubt, had reference to an incursion which his tribe made the year after into Sëaou, a dependency of Sung. Këae must have been absorbed either by Ts&lsquo;e or by Loo.

[iii.] Lae was in the present district of Hwang, department Tăng-chow,—on the borders of Ts&lsquo;e. Its original inhabitants appear to have been brought to comparative civilization, and been ruled by a Viscount of the surname Këang, before the Ch‘un-Ts‘ëw period. We find Ts‘e, however, in constant hostility with it from its first appearance in the 7th year of duke Seuen to its extinction in the 6th year of Sëang.

[iv.] Kin-mow was the principal town of a small tribe of E,—in the present district of E-shwuy, department E-chow. Its capture by Loo is mentioned in the 9th year of duke Seuen, and afterwards it appears, in the Chuen on X. viii. 6, as the most eastern city belonging to the State.

Fourth, of the Man. We have not much information in the Ch‘un Ts‘ëw or in Tso about the tribes of the south, and that for the same reason which I have mentioned as making our authorities almost silent about the Jung proper, or the hordes of the far west. Ts‘oo kept the Man under its control, and lay between most of their tribes and the States of Chow, so that the two hardly came into contact or collision, and the historiographers of the States had little occasion to refer to what was taking place among the southern populations. What we find related about them will be given under the divisions of the ‘Loo Jung,’ the ‘various tribes of the Man,’ the ‘many tribes of the Puh,’ and the tribes of ‘Pa.’

[i.] In the Chuen at the beginning of the 13th year of duke Hwan we have an account of a fruitless expedition from Ts‘oo against the small State of Lo, Lo being assisted by an army of the Loo Jung. One of the names in king Woo’s ‘Speech at Muh,’ which I have referred to, thus comes here before us. These Jung occupied what is now the district of Nan-chang, in the department of Sëang-yang, Hoo-pih. Tso says that, though they were called Jung, they belonged to the Man of the south. Geographically, they must be classed with them. They must have been reduced to subjection by Ts‘oo not long after the above expedition, and their chief settlement converted into the town of Leu; for in the Chuen on VI. xvi. 6, 131]