At the time of his recall another rebellion had broken out against China--the rebellion of the French--and, like another Uriah, the powerful general was sent to the forefront in Formosa, where he was opportunely slain by a French bullet, or by a misdirected Chinese one.
After his death it was found that Yang had made a noble bequest to the City of Tali.

During his residence he had built for himself a splendid yamen of granite and marble.

This he had richly endowed and left as a free gift to the city as a college for students.

It is one of the finest residences in China, and, though only seventy undergraduates were living there at the time of my visit, the rooms could accommodate in comfort many hundreds.
[Illustration: SNOW-CLAD MOUNTAINS BEHIND TALIFU.] Tali is situated on the undulating ground that shelves gently from the base of snow-clad mountains down to the lake.

The lower slopes of the mountain, above the town, are covered with myriads of grave-mounds, which in the distance are scarcely distinguishable from the granite blocks around them.