The cheering was taken up by the crowds below, and then carried miles away by the thousands of troops, to mingle with the booming of distant guns." LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED The _I yue kuo chi_ (costumes of strange nations).

Circa 1380.
The _Tung hua lu_ (a history of the Manchus down to A.D.

1735).

1765.
The _Sheng wu chi_ (a history of the earlier wars under the Manchu dynasty).

1822.
_A History of China_, by Rev.J.Macgowan, 1897.
_A History of the Manchus_, by Rev.J.Ross, 1880.
_The Chinese Repository_.
_The Chinese and their Rebellions_, by T.T.Meadows, 1856.
Pamphlets issued by the T`ai-p`ings, 1850-1864.
_The Times_, 1911-12.
_The London and China Telegraph_, 1911-12..