performed, aud 400 jonks with 20,000 men surrendered, while Chang Pao also entrapped a rival chief. For this success Po-ling 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 (
Chinese characters). The sobriquet of a famous horse-trainer, named 1061
(Chinese characters) Sun Yang, who lived in the early ages and is mentioned
by Ohuang Tzti.
Po Ya (Chinese characters), A famous lute-player of old, who when young 1663
studied under a teacher known as (Chinese characters)Chêng 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 (Chinese characters). A.D. 1237-1295. A Mongol chieftain, who after 1663
a youth spent in Central Asia became Minister under Kublai Khan
and aided his master in completing the conquest of the Chinese
empire. In 1274 he crossed the Yang-tsze and captured (Chinese characters) 0-chou,
the modern Wu-ch'ang in Hupeh. In 1275 he took (Chinese characters) 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,
