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the posts). A person wishing to take a trip through this country could not do
so in less than a month ^'.
When Ma Fu-po (J^ jf^ jj^) had pacified Hai-nan, he ordered potters
to make some earthenware vessels {^),
the larger of which held several
piculs of rice, the smaller from five to two or three bushels. Then he invited 5
(the natives), even from the most remote villages, who had made their sub-
mission, and he gave (these vessels) to them at their choice. By this means
he was enabled to form an idea of the accessibility, or otherwise, of their
nests and caves (^ ^). The Wild Li took the small jars of two or three
bushels, and when asked the reason, replied that they had all come down lo
from steep cliffs and the (forks of) trees (^ ;^) and that they could not
take the big ones, because they feared that they would not be able to carry
them home. By this (the General) learnt that their villages and caves (il||^[ ^)
were deep in the interior, in precipitous and inaccessible places ^^.
Among (the Chinese) population of the four prefectures the clan name is
of Li (^)
is very common, because this clan is descended from the Li. At
the present time there are many descended from the Li who bear the surname
of Wang (^), In the first year of the shun-M period (1174) the head-man
of the wild Li of the Wu-cM-shan (i ^fg* ^]), Wang Chung-k'i (3£ fiji
^) by name, gathered together the neighbouring Li villages, eighty in 20
number with a population of 1820 adult males (X), for the purpose of making
their submission to Chinese rule. When Chung-k'i and the various head-men,
Wang Chung-won (3£ i^ '^) and others, in all eighty- one men, repaired to
K'iung (-chou) to present themselves, they bound themselves, by an oath taken
in the Hien-ying-miau (^ |§ j||), by stone-rubbing and blood-drinking (§f 25
^ i^ J^)j
to give up misdoing and to desist from rapine and acts of violence.
The Prefect of K'iung-chou arranged drawings of their outward
appearance and of their clothing which were submitted to the Viceroy (|g ^
alf^. (According to these drawings) those of the natives who wore their hair
in a knot (or knob) and uncovered, wrapped the lower part of the knot with 30
red silk, or wrapped the hair entirely in coloured silk, or else they wore little
flaring ornamented bamboo hats
(>J> :^ ^), but all of them wore two
silver combs (^ ^) stuck in their hair. Some of them wore a short embroi-
dered skirt*"- Wang Chung-k'i was further distinguishable by a blue turban
( rtl ) and a long red silk brocade gown, bound round with a girdle. He 35
himself said that this was a brocade gown which one of his ancestors, during
the suan-lo period (1 1 1 9— 1 1 26), had received from the Emperor for having
ceded a piece of land to the Chinese Government".