We are told by an eye-witness, Dr Lim Boon-keng, that when this ceremony was over, Sun Yat-sen turned to address the assembly. "He was speechless with emotion for a minute; then he briefly declared how, after two hundred and sixty years, the nation had again recovered her freedom; and now that the curse of Manchu domination was removed, the free peoples of a united republic could pursue their rightful aspirations. Three cheers for the president were now called for, and the appeal was responded to vigorously. The cheering was taken up by the crowds below, and then carried miles away by the thousands of troops, to mingle with the booming of distant guns." LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED The _I yü kuo chih_ (costumes of strange nations). Circa 1380. The _Tung hua lu_ (a history of the Manchus down to A.D. 1735). 1765. The _Shêng wu chi_ (a history of the earlier wars under the Manchu dynasty). 1822. _A History of China_, by REV. J. MACGOWAN, 1897. _A History of the Manchus_, by REV. J. ROSS, 1880. _The Chinese Repository._ _The Chinese and their Rebellions_, by T. T. MEADOWS, 1856. Pamphlets issued by the T'ai-p'ings, 1850-1864. _The Times_, 1911-12. _The London and China Telegraph_, 1911-12. INDEX Abkhai, 18, 20; death of, 19 Aisin Gioro, 118 Akutêng, 4; death of, 6 Alabaster, Mr, 93 Albazin, 42 Amherst, Lord, 66 Amiot, Père, 42 Amoy, 42; taken, 77 Amur, River, 17; as boundary, 42 Amursana, 55 Ancestral worship, 44 An-ch'ing, 86 Andijani, 100 Anglo-French expedition, 93; the second, 94 Annam, 58 Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, 33 Arabtan, 43 Archery, 37 "Arrow" case, the, 92 Artillery, 17 Assemblies, national and provincial, 122 Athalik Ghazi, 100 Audience, the first, 103 Badakshan, 43 Bannermen, 37 Banzai, 15 Baschpa, 11 Baturu, 88 "Blood thicker than water," 95 Bogue Forts taken, 77 Bokhara, Ameer of, 100 Boxers, the, 115 British fleet arrives, 76 "Brother of Christ," the, 82 Burgevine, 89 Burlingame mission, the, 102 Burma, 32, 56 "Button," the, 29 Cagliostro, 66 Calendar, the, 43; European adopted, 129 Camoens, 73 Cantlie, Dr, 124 Canton, riot at, 75; foreign houses burnt at, 93; captured, 93 Cantonese serve on British men-of-war, 78 Catalogue of Imperial Library, 59 Catholic missionaries, 33; rank accorded to, 114 Census, the, 48 Chapu taken, 77 Chi Hsiang, 98 Chia Ching, 61 Chia Ch'ing, 61; attacked in streets of Peking, 64; died, 68 Ch'ien Lung, 54; pictures of his victories, 55; abdicates, 59 Chihli, 3 Chin dynasty, 4 China proper, 41 "China's sorrow," 47 Chinese language, death for teaching to foreigners, 71 Chinkiang taken, 77; captured by T'ai-p'ings, 85 Ch'ing (or Great Pure) dynasty, 20; established, 28 Chino-Japanese war, 110 Christianity, 44; oppressed, 52; forbidden, 54; opposed, 112 Ch'ung-hou, 101; condemned to death, 101; letter of apology to France, 103 Chusan occupied, 77 Cochin-China, 58 Co-hong system, 66