Now,

Kaou-tseen have united, and will before long eject my body from the tomb. I hope you will remove it to another place to avoid this calamity." Keo said, "How dare this wretch thus insult my brother? I will aid you with all my strength to fight him." Pih replied, "You are a man of the light.* I am wholly a spirit of darkness. although you have never so much valour and energy as a man clothed with flesh, yet, since there is an impassable barrier between this dusty world and the invisible state, how can you contend with unclothed spirits? and though you have effigies, they can only aid by invocation, but cannot withdraw this turbulent fiend." Keo said, "You may now retire, and I will come daily from my retreat." The next day he went to Kings' temple in a great rage, destroyed his spiritual image, and was about to set fire to the building, when the elders of the people came and pathetically besought him to desist from his purpose. "This (said they) is the sacred fire of the whole village; if you violate it, destruction and misery will overtake the inhabitants." In a moment they were joined by multitudes more, in supplication and intercession. Keo acceded to their request. He then returned to the temple of sacrifice, and wrote a letter to his majesty to the following purport. "Pih-taou's provision and clothes supplied your minister with the means of preserving life until he had an interview with your sacred majesty, who conferred honours on him sufficiently distinguished to satisfy a whole life. Permit your minister, through future ages, to exhaust his mind in plans expressive of the most intense gratitude for your majesty's favours." He gave the letter to his attendants, went to Pih's tomb, and covered the whole area with his tears. "My brother (he said) is suffering under the tyranny of King's audacious spirit without any prospect of emancipation-conduct which I cannot bear, and therefore wish to burn his temple and destroy his tomb;

* As expressed by the Chinese-" a masculine man.

A feminine spirit.

The terms employed for the above are Yin and Yang, signifying male (Yang), and female (Yin), "light and darkness, perfection and imperfection, manifestation and obscurity, good and evil, the source of existence and the cause of decay." Every thing masculine is invested with the highest excellence, every thing feminine treated with the most contemptuous disdain.-See Professor Kidd's China, p. 137, 138.

but, as I fear to oppose the people of the district, I would rather die, and become a spirit beneath the springs,* where I can effectually aid my brother, by fighting this turbulent demon. Bury my corpse on the right of his tomb, that, sharing the same place with him in death and life, I may requite his benevolence. Return to Tsoo; state the case to the prince; earnestly beseech his majesty to listen to my words, and eternally protect the gods of the mountains and rivers." When he had done speaking, he drew his sword from his belt, cut his throat, and almost instantly expired. His attendants strove to save him, but were too late. In great haste they prepared his coffins and shrouds, and buried him by the side of Pih-taou. The same night, about the second watch, a vehement storm of wind and rain arose, accompanied by terrific thunder and lightning, the effects of which extended for many miles around. King's tomb shook as if agitated by an earthquake. His white bones were scattered in the wind, the firs and pines were uprooted at its side, while a fire broke out within the temple, which consumed it to ashes. The old men

of the village were thrown into the greatest consternation, and went in procession to the tombs of our heroes to burn incense and perform acts of devotion. The attendants returned home, and laid all these circumstances before his majesty, who thanked them for their fidelity, and sent officers to build a temple to Keo, on whom he conferred the posthumous honour of Ta-foo, of the first rank, and dictated the following inscription for the temple: “A sacrifice to faithfulness and integrity." He then raised a monument, on which all these events were recorded; and to this period incense is perpetually burned, whilst from that hour King's spirit was cut off. The inhabitants of the district offer, at the four seasons, sacrifices and prayers which are in the highest degree felicitous. An ancient Ode says:—

"The venerable principles of benevolence and justice

Comprehend the heavens and the earth,

And dwell within the human bosom.

Before the temples of our two scholars

The autumnal sun serenely shines;

Their heroic spirits are associated
Beneath the cold light of the moon."

* An expression for Hades.

The fourth principal figure in this case, is a mandarin of the fourth class, seated on a portable chair, called by the natives "Ma chă." The costume of this mandarin is far inferior to those of the two principal figures in CASE No. I, his long silk petticoat is fastened round the waist by means of a belt, which is united in front by a clasp. The visitor will notice a variety of accoutrements attached to this belt, rather military in their appearance, but not at all so in reality. In fact, a Chinese never goes armed, as the jealousy of the government has denied the privilege of wearing arms to all except the soldiers on parade. The appendages referred to are, therefore, altogether peaceful, such as a silk fan-sheath, embroidered tobacco-pouches, &c. The cap is cone-shaped, but not turned up at the edge; having crimson silk, pendant from the crowning ball. This is a summer cap.

This officer is attentively listening to the fable, and is apparently in the full enjoyment of that calm and tranquil state of mind, which the almost universal custom of smoking tobacco is thought to produce. The servant is standing behind his superior, and presenting to him a redcovered official document. He is attired in a gown and spencer of dark nankeen, the common material of the dresses of the lower orders.

CHINESE TABLE, HANDSOMELY CARVED, GILT, AND PAINTED.
SPECIMEN OF CITRON, OR FINGER FRUIT. (Citrus Sacodactylus.)

SUPERBLY EMBROIDERED SILK SCREEN TO DOor.

LANTERNS SUSPENDED FROM THE CEILING.

The fourth case introduces us to a group of Chinese beauties. We have here three ladies of rank, in full costume. Their hair, which