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 94 IMPEBIAL TEN. He then maxched his army to the passes of Tao and Mien rivers; and all the interior of the Tsin dominions was in terror. But Yen was surrounded on all sides by enemies ready to take advantage of any slip. On the north-west, Dai* Wang was himself a *' Hoo/' or a man of Hunnish descent, and married to a daughter of Jwun ; but none the less ready and eager to plunder the lands of his matrimonial relations. Dai Wang had twice attacked the Hun chief Gaochua^ so called because he went to battle in a high chariot Yen men were, in 3€7> returning from a successful expedition against the same Huns, and when passing by Dai Wang's fields, wantonly destroyed quantities of his standing corn. The angry Dai Wang marched eastwards against the General of Yowchow, who was posted at Yunjoong"t" to be prepared for any possible attack from the west, and completely defeated him, annihilating the division of Mo Yiijia, another Yen general. The Yen men were being taught what defeat was in the south as well ; and their prosperity had already reached its zenith when Go felt the advance of age and weakness creeping over him, and indicating the approach of his end. As commander, he was never severe ; but was just, merciful, truthful ; and delighted rather in conferring favours on the worthy than in inflicting punishment upon the guilty. But if he was beloved by his men, the chiefs had, one by one, slunk from his side ; the result, doubtless, of court cabals, or of envy. He was •compelled, sometime before, to return to Ye, leaving the army in the hands of Woo Wang, who was a worthy substitute. He said to the young emperor, that Woo Wang was a much abler man. and a much safer guide in poUcytJian himself ; andwannlyreoom: mended the emperor to place him at the head of affidrs, when the time came to nominate a Prime Minister. Two or three months afterwards he took imwell, and was frequently visited lEUver, west of Peking, which runs through the Mongol territory now called Ortous. The jninoe, or Wang, was, as in the Chinese kingdozns, and like Scotch "lairds," called after the land over which he ruled. t The modem Tatung f oo of Shansi.
 * The region known as Dai was on the borders of that portion of the Yellow