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Rh we have an army of Ts‘oo marching on from Leu, where the Loo Jung had dwelt, and throwing open its granaries to soldiers and officers alike.

[ii] It is only in the Chuen just referred to, in the 16th year of duke Wăn, that mention is made of the 'many tribes of the Man.' There was then, we are told, a great famine in Ts‘oo, and the people of Yung, who are also mentioned in the Speech at Muh, and who had by this time coalesced into a State of some order and civilization, took advantage of it to incite a general rising of all the tribes of the south against that Power. The Man came to join in the movement from their seats in what are now the departments of Shin-chow and Yuen-chow in Hoo-nan. It was a critical time in the history of Ts‘oo, and it was proposed that the capital should be abandoned. But bolder counsels prevailed; an army took the ﬁeld; assistance came from Ts‘in and Pa; the Man were severed from the combination, and made a covenant on their own account; and Yung was extinguished, that is, the sacrifices of its chiefs were abolished, and it was reduced to be a city of Ts‘oo. There is no further mention of the Man in the Ch‘un-Ts‘ew period. It was not till the time of the Warring States that Ts‘oo succeeded in depriving them of their independence.

[iii.] The Puh, it has been seen, were among the auxiliaries of king Woo in the conquest of Shang. The 'hundred' or many tribes of them took a principal part in the rising against Ts‘oo, of which I have just spoken, and appear in it under the direction of the people of Keun, a small State between Yang and Lo. Where their own settlements were is uncertain. Some say they were in the present department of K‘euh-tsing, Yun-nan, which is too far off, though some tribes may have wandered there at a subsequent period; others, with more probability, place them in the departments of Ch‘ang-tih and Shin-chow, Hoo-nan. On the occasion under our notice, Wei Këa, one of the generals of Ts‘oo, said about them, 'They think that we are unable from the famine to take the ﬁeld. If we send forth an army, they are sure to be afraid, and will return to their own country. The Puh dwell apart from one another; and when they are hurriedly going off, each tribe for its own towns, who among them will have leisure to think of anybody but themselves?' It happened as he said. In fifteen days from Ts‘oo’s appearing in force there was an end of the attempt of the Puh. 132]