Descendants.
The first Imperial door-e translated in this column this morning requires some nation, The "'T'o-ming" which in the letters of the decree means ' degraded fe," but which are ordinarily written with the letters bearing the same sound phonetically but a different moaning, that 1s to say, the "exiled people," are descend. ants of the Mongols who came to Ohina in he 13th oootury a us Mongol conqueror of a large part of the two continents of Europe and. Asia. After Genghiz Khan (whose dynasty is oalled in Chinese history the Chin, or "Gold" dynasty) had conquered about half of the Aon Chinese Empire, southwards, down to the northern banks of the Yangtae, driving the Emperor Kao Toung of the Sung dynasty south of the river, he (Genghiz han) left the work of completing the conquest to his principal General Hu Pih-(named Kublai Khan by Marco Polo in his book of travels) while he himself started in his Western career of conquest into Europe. Hu Pih-li proclaimed himself Emperor of China in A. D 1275 under the name of Shih Tsung and with the dynastic title of Yuan, or Primordial, Yuan dynasty existed not quite one hundred years, but during that time the unlucky people of Chinx had cause to curse the very name of Mongol, for the Mongols governed most cruelly and sunguinarily—to put it mildly. Hence when they were driven out of the country by the first Emperor of the Ming dynasty (the preslecessor of the present Manchu) Chu Tai-tau, known officially us the Emperor Hung Wu, a general crusade was made by the exasperated Chinese against the Mongols who remained in the country. These and those who were captured in war by the Chinese troops were banished pr to Ningpo and Canton and there suffer all sorts of degradations, for the cruelties their fathers had made allowed to go to school nor to become an oficial. He could only be s barber, chiropodist, laundryman, or servant of the lowest class, while his womenfolk had to be female hairdressers (for Chinese Indies), waitresses upon brides at weddinye, washo) women and do similar manual work. In Canton these exiled Mongole were treated with the same cruelty; for years there was no law for them, th neither justice nor redress for such Only the most, degraded, in Chinese esti. motion, menial work was for such exiles, while in Canton they were compelled to
Tang-Ka) or boas population, none of whom cep themselves is Beata—enoe their jesigantion Ting nton colloquial, was permitted to live on land or own a foot of it with the single exception of six feet of burial ground, In tne first yeara of the Ming dynasty, the conquerors of the Mongols, these boat p not allowed even to be buried on land; their corpses were either cast into the river or cremated.
While the unfortunate Mongol exiles in Chekiang province have, by the Emperor's Benevolent decree, been emancipated, the same is not apparent in the ose of their compatriots, the 'Tang-ka" of Canton, in Kusngtang province. Doubtless some philanthropic person among the Cantonese gentry, seeing the success attending th. forts' of the Chtkiang notables, will
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