e priest carrying our letters, shall be
known." When this priest was appointed, by whom, and to do what, there
is nothing to show. To a certain extent this enigmatical sentence is
supported by the Japanese annals, which announce that "in the summer
of 1279 the Mongol generals Hia Kwei and Fan Wen-hu came and sent
_aides-de-camp_ to Dazai Fu to discuss peace, but Tokimune (the
regent) had them decapitated at Hakata in Chikuzen."

Hia Kwei was certainly another defeated Chinese general, but I do not
think he ever went to Japan. It is in the spring of 1280 that the
Chinese record the execution by the Japanese of "Tu Shi-chung," etc.
But it is quite evident that Fan Wen-hu cannot possibly have been
executed in 1279, for later on, in 1280, after Hung Ts'a-k'iu and
others had been appointed to the Japan expedition, "it was decided to
wait a little, and Fan Wen-hu was consulted as to the best means of
attack; meanwhile prisoners of war, criminals, Mussulmans, etc., were
enlisted, and volunteers were called for." It is difficult to account
for "Mussulmans" in such company, for the villanous "Saracen" Achmat
was just then at the height of his power. The King of Corea meanwhile
personally paid a visit to Peking, and gave the assurance that he was
raising thirty thousand extra soldiers to serve in the Japan war. Fan
Wen-hu was now placed in supreme command of one hundred thousand men.
"The King of Corea with ten thousand soldiers, fifteen thousand
sea-men, nine hundred war-ships, and one hundred and ten thousand
hundred-weight of grain, proceeded against Japan. Hung Ts'a-k'iu and
his colleagues were provided with weapons, Corean armor, jackets, etc.
The troops were given strict instructions not to harass the
inhabitants of Corea. Corean generals received high rank, and the King
was given extra honors."

In 1281 the generals Hung Ts'a-k'iu and Hintu (a Ouigour Turk) went in
command of a naval force of forty thousand men via "Kin Chouin Corea."
Another force of one hundred thousand men was sent across the sea from
modern Ningpo and Tinghai, the two forces arranging to meet at the
islands of Iki and Hirado.

Alouhan (a Mongol) and Fan Wen-hu received in anticipation the
honorary titles of "Left and Right Governors of Japan province"; and
when they and the other generals took leave of Kublai, the Emperor
said: "As they had sent us envoys first, we also sent envoys thither;
but then they kept our envoys, and would not let them go; h