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 DABIKG SPY. 155 ten to spy, and ten to return — ^I shall be back in thirty days/' was the reply. He started, got by byeroads to the very south of Liaotung city, where his retreat was cut off But he cut his way through the Coreans, and returned in the time specified. The emperor was delighted and, with a sigh of pleasure, said: " Wherever was bravery like this ? " He rewarded him with 50 catties (over 60 lbs) weight of gold, and 1000 pieces of satin» From the time taken to get to Liaoyang, he must have started from the rendezvous at Anloshan. This same Taotai got to Sinchung, among the several thousand men under Jianghia Wang, who was second in command. A few score horse rode up to the gate, but the besieged would not be tempted out The successful crossing of Shuji had thrown the Coreans out of their calculation, and given them much uneasine&s ; so that eveiy city in Liaotung closed its gates, and there was neither ingress nor egress. Shuji, with his 60,000 men, got to Gaimow and joined the Taotai. The city fell before them next day, containing 20,000 people and over 100,000 dan of grain. The name Gaimow was. then changed to Gaichow (present Eaichow). The Yuen dynasty afterwards established it as commanding city over the four cities of Jienan, Tangchu, Hiwngyao, and Siwyen. General Jangliang had crossed from Laichow, sailed up the Liao river and marched on Bishachung, which was accessible only on the west Its remains are in the south-east comer of the modem Haichung, on a small hill inside the city ; the modem city being at least six times as large, for it was scarcely one li square* Chun, one of Jangliang's officers, got to the waUs by nighty seconded by Wang Dadoo. Dsoonggwan was first on the wall^ and Bisha feU, with 5000 people in it* found in Liaotung; for though there are popularly hundreds of " GkM>H ** cities, we- have traced them almost all to the end of the Ming Dynasty, or the beginning of the present Tsing, ie., they are ruins of cities built within three centuries. The hardened toubbco of concrete which stand on the face of that small hiU inside- Haichung are very different. To the best of my belief they are real Corean remains. That concrete is studded with broken pieces of large, hard tUes ; of long, wide, but
 * The old wall of that city is the only trace of Corean occupation which we have