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258 The Buddhist priest Chiyu made a south-pointing chariot.

It was reported from the province of Idzumo:—"On the shore of the northern sea the fish are dying in heaps three feet in depth. In size they resemble the globe-fish. They have the beaks of sparrows and thorny scales several inches long. The common people say that they are sparrows which have gone into the sea and become changed into fish, and give them the name of 'sparrow-fish.'"

One book says:—"In the seventh month of the sixth year, Pèkché sent Envoys with the following message to the Empress:—'Great Thang and Silla have joined their powers for an attack upon us. They have taken away as prisoners King Wichă, his Queen, and the Heir to the Throne. Our Government has therefore stationed troops on the north-western frontier and repaired