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CHAP. XLIV. p. 38.   SINDAFU.   79

undershot water-wheels of bamboo are freely employed. Water-

power is used for driving mills through the medium of wheels,

undershot or overshot, or turbines, as the local circumstances may

demand." (R. Logan JAcK, Back Blocks, p. 55.)

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XLIV., p. 36.

SINDAFU.

" The story of the ` three Kings ' of Sindafu is probably in this

wise : For nearly a century the Wu family (Wu Kiai, Wu Lin,

and Wu Hi) had ruled as semi-independent Sung or ` Manzi '

Viceroys of Sz Ch'wan, but in I206 the last-named, who had

fought bravely for the Sung (Manzi) Dynasty against the

northern Dynasty of the Nüchén Tartars (successors to Cathay),

surrendered to this same Kin or Golden Dynasty of Nüchêns or

Early Manchus, and was made King of Shuh (Sz Ch'wan). In

236, Ogdai's son, K'wei-t'eng, effected the partial conquest of

Shuh, entering the capital, Chéng-tu Fu (Sindafu), towards the

close of the same year. But in 1259 Mangu in person had to go

over part of the same ground again. He proceeded up the

rapids, and in the seventh moon attacked Ch'ung K'ing, but

about a fortnight later he died at a place called Tiao-yü Shan,

apparently near the Tiao-yü Ch'ung of my map (p. 175 of Up the

Yangtsze, 188-0, where I was myself in the year i881. Colonel

Yule's suggestion that Marco's allusion is to the tripartite Empire

of China woo years previously is surely wide of the mark. The

` three brothers ' were probably Kiai, Lin, and T'ing, and

Wu Hi was the son of Wu T'ing. An account of Wu Kiai is

given in Mayers' Chinese Reader's Manual." (E. H. PARKER,

As. Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, pp. 144-5.)

Cf. MAYERS, No. 865, p. 259, and GILES, Biog. Dict., No. 2324,

p. 880.

XLIV., p. 38.

SINDAFU.

Tch'eng Tu was the capital of the Kingdom of Shu. The

first Shu Dynasty was the Minor Han Dynasty which lasted

from A.D. 221 to A.D. 263 ; this Shu Dynasty was one of the

Three Kingdoms (San Kwo chi) ; the two others being Wei

(A.D. 220-264) reigning at Lo Yang, and Wu (A.D. 222-277)

reigning at Kien Kang (Nan King). The second was the Ts'ien

Shu Dynasty, founded in 907 by Wang Kien, governor of Sze

Chw'an since 891 ; it lasted till 925, when it submitted to the