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Show ‘m- the Empire of Cuiwa me his Eyes was the fight of five Tartars , wh ett according to the cuftom o thofe People, were{ent out before to difcover and demand whether he woul have Peaceor War; butinftead thercof they prefently fell upon him, and th firft Arrow that was fthot pierced him quite through the heart ; wherewith fallin dead upon the place, it ftruck fo great a fear into all his Followers, tha they were foon overthrown The news of this Viltory was quickly f{prea . ‘abroad, upon the report of which {uch Tartars as were left alive, had elcap d th bleody hands of the Traytor, in the Province of Suchnen, came out of thei holes and cryed up the Victors as their Deliverers ;3 and thus at length the Pro vince of Suchuen fell under the {ubjection of the Tartars, who putting Garrifon into the chiefeft places, marched back with their Army to the Imperial City, o Peking 5, where upon their Arrival the General of the Army, though he returne Vitorious, yet{o {lippery are the ftations of Great Men that he was very un worthily received by his Brother, who accufed him of negle& in that he had no well performed bis charge. The faithful General with this difgraceful affront, wa put into {o violent a paflion, as being confcious of his own merit,and knowing tha he had deferved the greateft thanks imaginable for what he done, that he flun his Tartar Hat upon the ground, whichis taken by them fora fign or token o great dif-refpect ; and therefore (O bafe reward for Fidelity!) he was condemne to perpetual Imprifonment; but this Valiant and Generous Spirit prevented it by Hanging himfelf before-hand in his Palace The Tartars having cleared the Kingdom of the two Great Robbers Licungwus and Changlianchus , they immediately endeavoured by all fair means t {etle the Kingdom in Peaceand quietnefs ; which they fhortly to their great {atisfaCtion and content brought to pafs, and now enjoy the fame at this time with out any further difturbance |