nient territory
on the verge of the Chinese provinces; and his constant attachment to
the service of the empire was secured by weakness, and the desire of
revenge. From the time of this fatal schism, the Huns of the North
continued to languish about fifty years; till they were oppressed on
every side by their foreign and domestic enemies. The proud inscription
[41] of a column, erected on a lofty mountain, announced to posterity,
that a Chinese army had marched seven hundred miles into the heart of
their country. The Sienpi, [42] a tribe of Oriental Tartars, retaliated
the injuries which they had formerly sustained; and the power of the
Tanjous, after a reign of thirteen hundred years, was utterly destroyed
before the end of the first century of the Christian aera. [43]

[Footnote 38: See the reign of the emperor Vouti, in the Kang-Mou,
tom. iii. p. 1--98. His various and inconsistent character seems to be
impartially drawn.]

[Footnote 39: This expression is used in the memorial to the emperor
Venti, (Duhalde, tom. ii. p. 411.) Without adopting the exaggerations
of Marco Polo and Isaac Vossius, we may rationally allow for Pekin two
millions of inhabitants. The cities of the South, which contain the
manufactures of China, are still more populous.]

[Footnote 40: See the Kang-Mou, tom. iii. p. 150, and the subsequent
events under the proper years. This memorable festival is celebrated in
the Eloge de Moukden, and explained in a note by the P. Gaubil, p. 89,
90.]

[Footnote 41: This inscription was composed on the spot by Parkou,
President of the Tribunal of History (Kang-Mou, tom. iii. p. 392.)
Similar monuments have been discovered in many parts of Tartary,
(Histoire des Huns, tom. ii. p. 122.)]

[Footnote 42: M. de Guignes (tom. i. p. 189) has inserted a short
account of the Sienpi.]

[Footnote 43: The aera of the Huns is placed, by the Chinese, 1210 years
before Christ. But the series of their kings does not commence till the
year 230, (Hist. des Huns, tom. ii. p. 21, 123.)]

The fate of the vanquished Huns was diversified by the various influence
of character and situation. [44] Above one hundred thousand persons,
the poorest, indeed, and the most pusillanimous of the people, were
contented to remain in their native country, to renounce their peculiar
name and origin, and to mingle with the victorious nation of the Sienpi.
Fifty-eight hords, about two hundred thousand men, ambitious of a more
honorable servi