And whereas it was likewise deposed by _She-fo-pao_, That the grain being ripe at that season, the stems were exceeding high and strong, so as to render it difficult to walk amongst them, it seems that _Vang-yung-man_, in walking through the corn, had produced a rustling noise very audible to _She-fo-pao_, who was sitting on the declivity of the hill, and in a direction in which the wind favoured the progress of the sound; but when the latter called out, the wind, on the contrary, prevented him from being heard, and consequently from receiving an answer; this mischance, therefore, gave rise to his suspicion of the approach of wild beasts, which appears to have been the sole and undisguised motive for firing the gun. This statement of facts being narrowly investigated, in compliance with the supreme tribunal's order for revisal, may be confided in as accurate, and worthy of credit; the result, therefore, is that the offender during the darkness of the night, and under the apprehension of the approach of a wolf or tyger, had fired a musquet in a spot frequented by men, and had mortally wounded a man by the mischance, which corresponds with the law suggested in the order for revisal issued by the supreme tribunal; namely, that law against an offender who should unwarily draw a bow and shoot an arrow towards fields or tenements, so that any person unperceived therein should be wounded and die therefrom. The prior decision, conformably to the law against homicide committed in an affray, subsequent investigation does not confirm; and _She-fo-pao_ is, therefore, only punishable with banishment. This second report being received by the supreme criminal tribunal, they declare that, The sentence having been altered on a revision by the sub-viceroy, and rendered conformable to the law, which ordains that, whoever shall unwarily draw a bow and shoot an arrow towards fields or tenements, so that any person unperceived therein may be wounded, and die therefrom, the offender shall receive a hundred blows with the bamboo, and suffer banishment to the distance of 3000 lys. We confirm the sentence of a hundred blows of the bamboo, and banishment to the distance of 3000 lys; and further prescribe, that ten ounces of silver (3_l._ 6_s._ 3_d._) shall be paid by the offender to the relations of the deceased for the expences of burial. The sentence, being thus pronounced on the 19th day of the 5th moon, of the 27th year of _Kien-Long_, received the Imperial sanction on the 21st day of the same moon, in the following words: Pursuant to sentence be this obeyed. KHIN-TSE. [26] Each watch is two hours, and the second watch begins at eleven o'clock.