1850.
Notice of Júpan in the Hai-kwoh Tú Chí.
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chau and Káu-yü came into Páu-ying. They then made their way Into the department of Hwái-ngán, and assembled at Miáu-wán (Tem- ple Bay), where after a year had elapred they were suppressed. Those in the east of Chehkiáng retreated to Chusan, where they were sur- prised at different times by the troops of government.
Tsiáng Chau, who had been left behind at Fung-hau to make known the Emperor's commands to the islands, had dispatched a Budhist priest to Shán-k'au and other islands to declare to them his Majesty's prohibitions against piracy Yuen I-cháng, the military officer com- manding at Shán-k'au, now forwarded certain persons who had been in captivity, with a letter, which, however he sealed with the stamp of the king Yuen f-chin, the protector or civil governor of Fung-hau, sent over Teh-yáng, a Budhist priest, and others, with some of the produce of the island, and a memorial, wherein he returned thanks for his pardon, acknowledged his transgressions, and requested a passport for the deputation in charge of this tribute; under whose escort Tsiáng Chau returned.
Some time before this, Ching Shun-kung, whom Yáng-í had detached to cruise and make observations, having gone into Fung-hau, the lord of that island in like manner sent Tsing-shau, a Budhist priest, on board his vessel [to proceed to China], and return thanks for his pardon, and to state that the piracies from first to last had been caused by the traitorous merchants of China secretly instigating the barbarians of the islands to such acts; of which neither Yuen f-chin nor Yuen Í-cháng had any cognizance. Upon this, Tsung Hien represented the facts in a memorial, in which he showed that Fung-hau and Shánk'au, the only islands visited by Tsiáng Chau in the two years that he had been absent on his mission, had presented tribute, but either without the proper stamped document or certificate, or with a document stamped, but without the title of the king therein appearing; both of which things were opposed to the laws of the realm: still as [the governor of Funghau], in sending tribute and returning people who had been captured, had certainly shown a sense of his past errors, and an anxi- ety to be forgiven, it would be but right to dismiss his envoy politely, and he might be told to instruct Yuen 1-cháng and Yuen Í-chin to transmit orders to the king of Japan to seize all the leading insurgents there, and all traitorous Chinese; after which permission would be given them to send tribute. This was approved by the Emperor.
In the meantime, Wáng Chih had taken up his abode in one of the islands, where he and his comrades Wáng Ngáu, Yeh Sung-mwán, Sié Ho and Wáng Tsing-kí collected a large number of followers, and
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