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WANGHIBN TAKEN. 17 after which they fled with all their men to Dso. The city opened its gates immediately. Thus was finished the first war between China and any portion of the land now known as Corea The country of Chaosien was immediately divided into four provinces or circuits — 1st Lolang, which the Coreans call Norang, the present Pingyang, in which was the captured city Wanghien; 2nd.Xintwun, kingdom of Whi; Lintwun was the modem Oangwan Do; 3rd. Hiientoo, the original Gaogowli, and the eastern portion of the present Liaotung; and 4tL Junfan, the western half of Liaotung bordering the Liao river. (See Map I.) The great bulk of the modem Corea was still beyond this tract To the east of the conquered regions was Mahan, with fifty-four "kingdoms/' or independent clana Still east was Obun ban, divided into twelve independent kingdoms " ; Bien han was south of it» and bordering the kingdom of Wo, as Japan is known in Chinese history, which, too, had twelve "kingdoma" On the northern border of Chun han was the kingdom of Whi, extending eastwards to the sea. North of it was Wojoo, also stretching to the sea. Mahan, east and south-east of Lolang, had among its fifty-four kingdoms one called Baiji or Baijiachi, a name which Chinese writers hesitatingly derive from the fact that a hundred families fled thither from China. It afterwards gained supreme power in Mahan. This land produced pears of enormous size, and does so still ; long-tailed fowls ; and large pearls, which the people stitched on their clothes in rows> and of which they made neck- laces. Those of them who were very robust bound pieces of hide to their back with strong corda To this hide they attached a long pole, with which they made meny antics. They had no formal etiquette, nor could they ride on horse or ox back ; they, therefore, had neither horse nor ox at that time. Their houses were made of earth, in appearance like a pig-stye, with a door abova Chv/a horn was also called Chin (Tsin) han, a name originating from a supposed immigration of Chinese, who B