. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. prince, so it was but just that another family should dispossess them, underthe same circumstances. The young emperor was taken prisoner, andconveyed to the desert of Shamo, in Tartary, where he soon died, and thesecond brother lived only two years; when the now empty title was bestow-ed on the last prince of the Soong dynasty, who was only about six yearsof age. In the meantime, the Tartars (as the Moguls were generally called, incommon with all the nations of central Asia) were rapidly
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. prince, so it was but just that another family should dispossess them, underthe same circumstances. The young emperor was taken prisoner, andconveyed to the desert of Shamo, in Tartary, where he soon died, and thesecond brother lived only two years; when the now empty title was bestow-ed on the last prince of the Soong dynasty, who was only about six yearsof age. In the meantime, the Tartars (as the Moguls were generally called, incommon with all the nations of central Asia) were rapidly approaching theimperial city, from which the whole court fled in the utmost consternation,and went on board some barks that w^ere lying near the mouth of the Cantonriver. Some Tartar vessels were sent in pursuit of the wretched fuo-itives,whose terror at the sight of the hostile fleet seems to have amounted tomadness ; for one of the grandees, seizing the infant emperor in his arms,jumped with him into the sea, and was instantly followed by the empressand the chief ministers — who thus all Mandarin throwing Himself, with the Infant Emperor, into the Se 68 CHINA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. CHAPTER V. THE MOGUL. DYNASTY. The Tartar sovereign was left in undisputed possession of the whole em-pire, but the conquest had not been achieved without much bloodshed, andnumerous acts of revolting barbarity ; but when the great object was accom-plished, and the Mogul emperor acknowledged by the Chinese as their sov-ereign, he endeavored to win their affections by conferring benefits uponthem ; and sought to establish his power on the firm basis of popularesteem, rather than suffer it to rest on the uncertain foundation of that ter-ror which his name had hitherto inspired. Never did a more illustrious prince ascend an eastern throne, and neverwas there one more beloved and respected, than Kublai Khan; andalthough a conqueror, and of a foreign race, he was deservedly called the
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