" Ch'in Shing had slain Duke Kien.

So he contrived, rather cleverly, to steal about a hundred catties of Fuh-kien hemp.

In 1832 and 1833 he penetrated as far as the province of Fo-Kien.

When the vessel was alongside, he sent to inquire the name of the voyagers, and was informed that they were a certain Ho Chang, the new Governor of Kien-K'ang, going to his post with his wife Ho tsin, and his daughter Elegant, who was just fifteen.

But he is going to live at Pien-liang, and I will be at Kien-K'ang which is more than fifteen days' journey to the south of that place.

His father asked for a holiday, and the whole family went to Kien-K'ang, where the marriage was celebrated.