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brethern saw that I was faithful and loyal, they gave me three red stones ( ] ) in the 

 shape of the character Pin ( 2 ) and the form of the character Pa//. ( s ) There were 3:21 

 paces. ( 4 ) The president Wan ( 5 ) went ahead and made ns pass. The slow ones did 

 it in £1, the quick ones in 3 paces. 



Q, 203. How can you prove that? 



A- I can prove it by a verse. 



Q. 204. How does this verse run? 



A- I saw at the heatl of the bridge the pledged ones 



Who came along with three stones in their hands. ( ö ) 



The adopted brethern ( 7 ) went ahead and showed us the road; ( 8 ) 



Copper to the left, and iron to the right, no difference discernible. ( 9 ) 



» % m ■« ■■ m m a 



•*• *■ s 5 ■ « * n 



m 5t w m ns « Wc 

 ± m -& ü ^ m » 



Q. 205. Where did you come to when you had passed the bridge? 

 A. To the Hung-gate. ( 10 ) 



Q,. 206- How can you prove that? 

 A. I can prove it by a verse. 



Q,. 207. How does this verse run? 



A. The Hung-gate appeared to me very imposing! 



Generals with drawn swords stood on both sides! 



They let the faithful enter the Hung-gate 



To force the passes, slay the commanders, in order to reach Ku-ching'. ( 1] ) 



ter; but what character — we doii't know. Trom A. 204, however, it appears that the ,/Hung- water" 

 must mean the ,/Arch of steel." (Comp. p. 58). 

 (i) >gfe ;g" (2) ^ (3) y^ s e e the engraving on Tab. II, fig. 3. 



( 4 ) ~fó < The number 321 mean s again the character Hung, (Comp. p. 86, note 1.) 



(~°) i. e. Wan-yun-lung. (See p. 23.) 



( 6 ) Vari: Who went with three stones in their hand to the waterside I -^- lÉ£ 2El ^j ^ ^C ^|) 



( 7 ) i. e. the brethern of equal rank. 



( 8 ) Vari: The president went ahead and led the way l-fc ^ "g* jjp| ^ 4ö ?l ) 



( 9 ) Comp. p. 58, line 11. ( 10 ) See Tab. IV. 



(") A town situated at a Latitude of 37°29', and a Longitude of 113°56'. This is an allusion to an epie 

 of the Historv of the three states, Liu-pi, Kwan-yii and Chang-fi had sworn fraternity in a peach-gar- 



