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besiegers were so overcome by their emotions and thoughts of home that next morning they raised the siege. He was a friend of Tsn T4, whose military activity against the rebel Shih Lo he was anxious to rival. *^I am pillowed,'* he wrote, '^npon my arms, awaiting the dawn, in my desire to attack the enemy; yet I fear that Tsu T^i will be using his whip before me.'* He ultimately fell a victim to treachery on the part of the Hsien-pi Tartars, and was put to death. Canonised as ^.

Liu K*un ^ gi (T. g ^). Died A.D. 57. A native of ^ 1323 •^ Tung-hun in Honan, who graduated as hfiao lien in A.D. 29 and then disappeared and set up as a teacher at Chiang-ling in Hupeh. When the Emperor heard of this he appointed him magistrate at Chiang-ling, and subsequently sent him to more important posts, in all of which his administration was eminently successful. Once, upon the occasion of a large fire, he knelt down and performed the kotow; whereupon the wind shifted and the fire was extinguished. When the Emperor asked him what virtue there was in his administration to bring about such a miracle, he modestly replied that it was pure chance. *Truly," cried the Emperor, "the answer of a superior man !*' He rose to high ofiice in the Imperial Banqueting Court, and when he retired from old age received a mansion to live in and an adequate pension.

IiiuK'un-i ^ J^ — (T. Wg,^). Born A.D. 1830. A native 1324 of the ^ ^ Hsin-niug District in Hunan , who b^an his career as a salaried licentiate, but in 1855 entered the army. Promoted for his services to a civil post in 1856, he rapidly rose through various grades to be Judge in Euangsi, taking up his appointment in 1863. In 1864 he was made a baturu for the recapture of ]^ Hstin-chou Fu from the rebels. In 1865 he became Governor of Kiaugsi; in 1875 acting Viceroy of the Two Kiang; and later on

in the same year Viceroy of the Two Kuang. In 1879 he was