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is called Lo Foo Ts'z T'ong (✯✯✯✯), tiger hall. The floor of the cave is quite smooth with a lot of small stones almost like a mosaic. Though the actual site of the school is not known, old tiles have been found from time to time on the hillside, and one of these can be seen in a house called Ch'eung Ch'un Yuen (LAD) of Shui T'au (††) village. In the same house is a flower vase of interest that was dug up on Hong Kong island about 30 years before the British settled there.

As mentioned before, four of the "five Yuens" eventually left Kam T'in and founded branches of the Tang family elsewhere, and it has even been said that Yuen Leung, the ancestor of the Kam T’in branch, moved to Mok Ka Tung (***) near Shek Lung, but this removal is generally attributed to Yuen Leung's daughter-in- law, a princess of Sung dynasty whose story reads almost like a romance. She was a daughter of the Emperor Ko Tsung () of Sung Dynasty, who before becoming emperor of China was Prince Hong Wong (£). The Tartars at that time were attacking the North of China, and in the 2nd year of Tsing Hong () A.D. 1127 they entered the Sung capital, captured the two emperors Fai Tsung () and Yam Tsung () together with both the mother and wife of Hong Wong, who was himself away in another part of the kingdom fighting the Tartars as he held the appointment of T'in Ha Ping Ma Taai Yuen Sui (AF✯✯Ž), the com- mander in chief of all the emperor's forces. Hong Wong's little daughter was only ten years old and she was protected by her women servants who fled with her to the South. In the 3rd year of Kin Yim (✰✰) A.D. 1129 they arrived in the Kiangsi province where Yuen Leung was district officer of Kung Yuen (##) district. He was very zealous to help the Emperor and had collected together an army of soldiers, with the intention of marching North. Kiangsi was full of the Tartar forces, and the princess found herself sur- rounded by enemies. One day she saw the Sung flag over the encampment of Yuen Leung's army and she went to him for pro- tection. She stayed with Yuen Leung, moving about with his soldiers, and eventually when he returned to Kam T'in he brought her back with him. He did not know who she was, as the servants had told him only that she was the daughter of a high official in the North. The princess found happiness and security in Kam T'in. She was like a daughter in Yuen Leung's house, helped with the household duties and was quite content. Eventually she revealed