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performed, aud 400 jonks with 20,000 men surrendered, while Chang Pao also entrapped a rival chief. For this success Po-Iing was ennobled. In 1811 he returned sick to Peking, but soon afterwards was sent to Nanking to attend to the Yellow River. Canonised as

Po Lo "fj^ m. The sobriquet of a famous horse-trainer, named 1061 ^^ ^ Sun Yang, who lived in the early ages and is mentioned by Ohuang Tzti.

Po Ya "fj^ ^, A famous lute-player of old, who when young 1663 studied under a teacher known as J^ ^ Ch*6ng Lien. The latter carried him to the Isles of the Blest, in order to get his musical sense improved. He was afterwards thrown into the society of a wood-cutter, named Chung Tzt&-ch4 who was such an excellent connoisseur of music that when Po Ya played hills he could see Mt. T^ai rise up before his eyes, and when he played water he could see the headlong torrent dashing down. At Chung*s death, Po Ya broke his lute and never played again.

Po-yen "fj^ |g. A.D. 1237-1295. A Mongol chieftain, who after 1663 a youth spent in Central Asia became Minister under Eublai Khan and aided his master in completing the conquest of the Chinese empire. In 1274 he crossed the Yang-tsze and captured ^ 0-chou, the modern Wu-ch'ang in Hupeh. In 1275 he took ^ Ch^ang- chou in Eiangsu; and in the following year Hangchow, the capital, surrendered and the Sung Emperor sought safety in flight. Just before his death a great meteor fell in the north-west, and rain turned to ice. He had a fine martial appearance; his plans were deep-laid, and he was decisive in action. He led an army 200,000 strong as though it had been one man , and his lieutenants looked up to him as a god. Marco Polo speaks of him as *^a Baron whose name was Bayan Chingsan, which is as much as to say Bayan

Hundred-Eyes The word **Bayan" really signifies great or noble,