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 To His Friend, Wei, the Good Goveemor

The Incense Burner is one of the peaks of the Luh mountain range.

Wei was now the governor of Chiang-hsia, a district in southern Hupeh. The Yellow Crane House (See note, No. Jf.0) looks over the Y angtze-kiang.

5 Chieh is a notorious tyrant, and Yao a benign sover- eign, of ancient China. By the "dogs of Chieh" are meant Shih Ssu-ming and his cohorts, who kept up the rebellion started by An Lu-shan.

Hu I, a famous archer of the legend, who shot down the false suns that appeared in the heavens and devas- tated the crops. Here Li Po means a savior, who could deliver the empire from the clutch of the rebels.

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