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Li has two meanings as thus spelled in English: first, a Chinese mile English mile; and second, of a candarin. Lis, candarins, mace, and taels are used in expressing the weights of medicine as well as of silver.

Lictors. See Yamên lictors.

Mace, of a tael, in money worth 14 cents silver, or 31⁄2d. As a measure of weight a trifle less than of an ounce avoirdupois.

Meiling. A range of mountains at the north of the Canton province.

Moon Month. The same word is used in Chinese for both moon and month, being also employed very generally by the foreign resident in China to designate the Chinese month, which is a lunar one, to differentiate it, without the need of any explanation, from the foreign month.

New Dominion

New Territory

Turkestan.

The latest addition of land to the Colony of Hongkong, leased from the Chinese Government.

Pei Yang Squadron is the Northern Squadron.

Provincial Governor. Every province has a Governor. Some are at present under military Governors.

Riverine ports. Usually applied to the treaty ports, on the Yangtzů, such as Chinkiang, Kiukiang, etc.

Runners. See Yamên.

Sampan. A small boat.

Sên, or rather Shên, or Shêng, means city, a provincial city. Shan-sz [Shen shih] are the gentry and elders and literary graduates of a village, or of a locality in a city. They are invested by custom, etc., with a quasi-authority over their fellowvillagers and neighbours.

Shên-nung. A mythical (?) emperor of China, deified as the God of Agriculture.

Soy. A sauce made from beans, largely used by the Chinese. Sycee. Lumps of silver cast into a curious shape said to be like a shoe, but requiring a strong imagination to see the likeness. These were, and are used instead of coins, as the Chinese till recently have had no silver coins in general use.

Tanka. The boat population, descendants of aborigines, despised by the landsmen, and with customs and habits of their own, scarcely ever intermarrying with the dwellers on shore.

Taotai. An Intendant of Circuit under the Manchu régime. Tartar-General. Generals who had the banner-men (see Army), etc., under their command at certain important cities, such as Canton, Foochow, and Hangchow, in the monarchical administrative system abolished in 1912.

Tiao. A string of cash=1000 (but usually 960 to 990 only), worth about $1 silver (see Dollar).

Yamên. An official residence, comprising within its boundaries prisons, court-houses, offices, gardens, etc., etc.

Yamên lictors. A species of police attached to a yamên.

Yamên Runners. A species of process-servers or bailiffs, etc., attached to a yamên.

Yen is the Japanese pronunciation for yüan or yün, which is used as a name for the dollar by the Chinese.

Yin and Yang Yum and yöng in Cantonese. The two principles of Nature from which everything is derived.

Viceroy, or Governor-General, had rule over one or two provinces usually. This was one of the offices abolished on the

establishment of the Republic.

Wán means a bay. Kuangchouwan Kuangchou Bay.

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Austrians in China, 170, 251, 252, Beard, 669.