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If there is dust in a happy place, the wind itself sweeps it away. 

 A virtuous house is without cares, and the sun always shines in it. 



We abstain here from a further description of the lodge, as it is given very minutely in the 

 Catechism of the Vanguard in Q. 227 and following. 



On Tab. IV we have given an engraving of the celebrated Hung-gate. 



We finish this description with a few remarks on the style and architecture of the buildings 

 of the Hung-league. 



According to the original drawings, only the underpart of the buildings seems to be made 

 of stone or brick; the upperpart seems to be made of a frame of wooden pillars, probably fil- 

 led up with stamped mud, or plaifced bamboo daubed with piaster. 



The tops of the roofs are always surmounted by the pear-shaped gourd, or censer of Li-tieh- 

 kwai, one of the eight genii; a twig or tendril is sticking out on both sides of the gourd. 



The walls are all surmounted with different kinds of weapons and flags, indicating the war- 

 like spirit of the brotherhood. 



Of course occasion or money is not always found to erect the lodge according to it's requi- 

 sites. In that case the buildings are made of bamboo, or of trunks of trees, in the style of 

 the American blockhouses; instead of watchtowers (Q. 284 of the Catechism), a seat is made 

 between the branches of some high tree, a ladder of rattan allowing the ,/look-out" to mount it. 



In the Indian Archipelago the Chinese build their lodges in deep forests, in places only known 

 to the brotherhood; there the feared Hung-family holds it's reunions, whilst the guards , perched 

 on their lofty seats, keep a sharp look-out for the strangers or policemen who might ap- 

 proach and detect their secret meeting place. 



The approaches to the places of reunion are horrible: the road leading over hills, streams, 

 marshes, and swamps. The initiated, however, know the track which they have to go; but 

 the pursuers, generally, are not able to follow them, as they remain sticking in the bogs. ( ] ) 



In the book found at Japara is a description with drawings of the approaches to the Shan-tung 

 lodge: a stone road leads to the first pass, called the // Heaven-screen-pass." ( 2 ) Past this is the 

 z/Earth-net-pass." ( 3 ) Next comes the ,/ Sun-moon-pass" ( 4 ), at which pass each brother is obliged 

 to pay one Mace and two Candareen (or onegram and two decigrams of silver, about one shilling). 



Af ter this pass comes a stone bridge, over a river, which leads to the Hall of fidelity and 

 loyalty ( 5 ) where are the shrines ofthefive ancestors, flankedto the right by the Councilroom ( 6 ), 

 and to the left by the Court ( 7 ); here the brother must produce his Capital (3 Hung-cash) and 

 Diploma. 



(}) W. A.. van Eees, Montrado. Geschied- en krijgskundige bijdrage, betreffende de onderwerping der Chi- 

 nezen op Borneo. 



Some account of the Heaven-Earth-league, by Abdallah ibn Abdel-kader Moensji, translated byT. Brad- 

 del. (Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. September, 1852.) 



( 2 ) % !55r M < 3 ) 4k JK M ( 4 ) H M 1 



( 5 ) JÊ IK M ( 6 ) Ü • ^ ( 7 ) M * ^ 



