Popular literature, however, to this day represents Ch'in K'ui as a traitor and Yo Fei as a national hero.

"You have eaten the fei in Tahiti nei, and you will come back," they chanted.

There are no reliable statistics; but it is understandable that at that time the population of China must have fallen considerably, especially if we bear in mind the equally ferocious suppression of the risings of the T'ai P'ing and the Nien Fei within China, and smaller risings of which we have made no mention.