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 which provinces the horse-dealers established subordinate Lodges.

(3) The flags of the Five elements; (72 五行) Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, White, Green, Black, Red, and Yellow.

(4) The flags of the cardinal points; East, green, West, white, South, red, North, black.

(5) The Four Season flags; Spring, green, Summer, red, Autumn, white, Winter black.

(6) The flags of Heaven, Earth, the Sun and Moon, Azure, Yellow, Red, and White.

(7) The seven stars, (73 七呈) eight diagrams, (74 八卦) Golden Orchid (75 金蘭) fiags, and the standard of the “Victorious brotherhood," green, yellow, red, and scarlet.

(8) The four red flags of;—the elder brother, Ban-hun-leong, (76 萬雲龍) Sien Seng, Tan-kin lam, (77 陳近南) the Sien Hong, Thien-iu-ang, (78 天祜洪) and the General of the main body, Thun-thien-huai (79 敦天懷).

(9) The yellow umbrella; (80 黃涼傘命).

(10) The Warrant Flag for the Leader of the Armies (81 三軍師 [sic]).

(11) The Spirit Tablet of the five ancestors" (82 五祖); on the left of which are inserted, the warrant flags, the precious sword,” (83 寶劍) a pair of scissors, a swan-pan, (84 算盤) and the "precious mirror." (85 寶鏡).

On the right of the Tablet, are the sword-sheath, foot measure, small scales and weights, the "four precious things of the library,"(86 書房四寶), viz. pen, ink, iukstone, and white paper fan,—also, there are five hanks of each colour of silk thread, white, yellow, red, green, and black.

(12) A model of the real, "Ang Hoa Teng" (87 紅花亭), with its three doors; in a kind of turret above the central door is the inscription, "By Imperial, (or Sacred) Command" (88 聖旨)— The side-doors have inscribed on them a pair of parallel sentences, altogether containing 16 characters, each having th radical "sui" or water, added (89 氵).

"Here is the place where "Tat chung, the first Buddhist