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90 IMPERIAL TEN. Tsu had to repent the death ; for the Yen men demanded vengeance, poured upon him, retook the citadel, and drove him off! Jien's son was ennobled for his father's sake. Soon after the defeat of Tsu, Jwun, feeling infirmities approach, and observing that his hair was becoming grey, was anxious for the future of his kingdom. His heir was constantly and loudly praised for the excellent qualities already developed, or beginning to show themselves ; but he continued ill at ease. He dreamed that Jao Wang was gnawing his elbow, — a dream, doubtless, arising from his anxiety, connected with his conquests, which he had wrenched out of Jao Wang's handa The dream made so profound an impression upon him, that he sent to have the body searched out, but he was unsuccessful He then offered the reward of a hundred ounces (liang) of gold (there was no silver in use then) to the person who should find the body. This reward brought forward an old woman, who pointed out the grave to the south of the city. When the body was disinterred, it was found stiff and uncorrupted. Jwun stamped his feet in anger, reviled the body, and said, " How dare a dead Hoo frighten the living ' Son of Heaven ! ' " and than ordered the body to be whipped, and thrown into the river Jang. But the body stuck against one of the pillars of the bridge, and would not float away! Afterwards, when the Chin empire was overturned, the poor woman Too, who had discovered the body, was executed, and the body buried. So much for the curious mixture of superstition and bravery ; seen not in China alone, and seen even more recently than fifteen centuries ago. Jwun had, in 356, sent an army of 80,000 men against the Huns, on the north of his kingdom, which defeated their army,, slew over a hundred thousand men, took over a million of horses, over ten million of sheep and oxen, and 35,000 Hunnish fieimilies, who, with their Shanyli chief, gave in their allegiance. These were all sent to Bohai in Shantung, where land was given them. It may not be out of place here to draw attention to the constant influx of strange blood into China. The Miao and Man, the inhabitants of China preceding the Chinese, could not fail to mix