Hobnobbing with the Chungs and Mings, And doing wild, tremendous things In free adventure, quest and fight, And God!

It had come to be generally believed that the race of the Mings had died out, but a recent dispatch from China speaks of there still being a representative in existence, who possibly might give serious trouble to the new republic.

In any case, for a long time past the Mings had ceased to give the Manchus any concern; the pressure upon the latter came from outside the empire, but that in its turn reacted profoundly on the internal situation.

The descendant of the Mings?

Everywhere they put to flight the government forces; but they did not choose to stop anywhere short of the ancient capital of the Mings.

The beginning of this century found a secret society in existence known as the "Triads," whose avowed object was the expulsion of the Manchus and the restoration of the Mings.

The Portuguese position in Macao had always been a peculiar oneunofficial is the word which best describes itfor though they had quietly occupied the place since the far-away days of the Mings, the Chinese had tolerated the strangers without recognizing them, only now and then murdering one by way of protest.