This amiable lady, on being shown the spoils that came from Lin-ngan, only wept, and said to her husband, “So also shall it be with the Mongol empire one day!” The eldest of the two boys who had escaped was proclaimed emperor by his adherents at Fu-chau, in Fo-kien, but they were speedily driven from that province (where the local histories, as Mr. G. Phillips informs me, preserve traces of their adventures in the Islands of Amoy Harbour), and the young emperor died on a desert island off the Canton coast in 1278. His younger brother took his place, but a battle, in the beginning of 1279 finally extinguished these efforts of the expiring dynasty, and the minister jumped with his young lord into the sea. It is curious that Rashiduddin, with all his opportunities of knowledge, writing at least twenty years later, was not aware of this, for he speaks of the Prince of Manzi as still a fugitive in the forests between Zayton and Canton. (_Gaubil; D’Ohsson; De Mailla; Cathay_, p. 272.) [See _Parker_, _supra_, p. 148 and 149.—H. C.] There is a curious account in the _Lettres Édifiantes_ (xxiv. 45 _seqq._) by P. Parrenin of a kind of _Pariah_ caste at Shao-hing (see ch. lxxix. note 1), who were popularly believed to be the descendants of the great lords of the Sung Court, condemned to that degraded condition for obstinately resisting the Mongols. Another notice, however, makes the degraded body rebels against the Sung. (_Milne_, p. 218.) NOTE 7.—There is much about the exposure of children, and about Chinese foundling hospitals, in the _Lettres Édifiantes_, especially in Recueil xv. 83, _seqq._ It is there stated that frequently a person not in circumstances to _pay_ for a wife for his son, would visit the foundling hospital to seek one. The childless rich also would sometimes get children there to pass off as their own; _adopted_ children being excluded from certain valuable privileges. Mr. Milne (_Life in China_), and again Mr. Medhurst (_Foreigner in Far Cathay_), have discredited the great prevalence of infant exposure in China; but since the last work was published, I have seen the translation of a recent strong remonstrance against the practice by a Chinese writer, which certainly implied that it was _very_ prevalent in the writer’s own province. Unfortunately, I have lost the reference. [See _Father G. Palatre, L’Infanticide et l’Œuvre de la Ste. Enfance en Chine_, 1878.—H. C.] CHAPTER LXVI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF COIGANJU.