This was not the end of the tragedy. Of Huang's wife, Liu Shih, the story is told that as soon as news was brought her of her husband's death she immediately turned towards the north and made an obeisance in the direction of the Emperor. Then she took her little daughter and strangled her, and immediately afterwards died by her own hand.[50] Her dying wish was that her little girl should be placed beside her in her coffin. Finally, a faithful servant of the family, named Huang Lu, seized a dagger and killed himself. And so, says the local chronicle, were brought about the pitiful deaths of a patriotic official, a filial son, a devoted wife, a loyal servant.[51] No one who heard the story but shed tears. The dead bodies were brought back to Weihaiwei and buried at Nai-ku Shan, to the north of Weihai City. FOOTNOTES: [39] See p. 23. [40] _Jih yüeh ho pi, wu hsing lien chu._ [41] The large number of earthquakes recorded in the Annals of this region is remarkable. Only slight earth-tremors have been noticed since the beginning of the British occupation, but the experience of former days should prevent us from feeling too sanguine as to the future. A recent writer has pointed out that though violent earthquakes are not to be expected on "a gently sloping surface such as the ocean-bed from which the British Isles arise," they may be expected on "the steeply shelving margins of the Pacific Ocean." (Charles Davison in the _Quarterly Review_, April 1909, p. 496.) [42] In another chapter mention will be made of the Virtuous Widows and other women of exemplary conduct whom the Chinese delight to honour. [43] See pp. 186-7. [44] A kind of Manchu D.S.O. [45] Quoted in _Weihaiwei Chih_ (9th _chüan_, p. 69). [46] See pp. 74, 391 _seq._, 396. [47] A city on the Grand Canal in Kiangsu, well known on account of its association with the name of Marco Polo. [48] Close to the present German colony of Kiaochou. [49] See pp. 71 and 391 _seq._ [50] A motive for this was doubtless the knowledge that the rebel soldiers would soon be turned loose in the captured city. [51] Apparently the poor daughter did not count, either because she was a mere soulless infant or because her part in the proceedings was a passive one. CHAPTER V BRITISH RULE