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444:(化及蠻貊): An inscription on a large rock in Jiji. The inscription translates to "subjugate the foreign people" and commemorates the spur trail between Shuili and Dongpu. The inscription is signed by two officers named Chen Fangbo (陳方伯) and Chen Shilie (陳世烈).
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living on the plains, and corruption was also rampant among Qing officers. Due to high costs of maintaining the trail, on
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was created in 1985, the government began restoring the trail and its bridges. Now, the western section of the
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Yoshitora (長野義虎) to walk the trail from Yuli. Nagano took seventeen days to trek the abandoned trail to Zhushan. Some claim that he climbed
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Taiwan for a few months. After the incident, the governing Qing realized how little control they had over remote regions of the island; they sent
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to live in the mountains to better subjugate the indigenous population as well as strengthen the Qing dynasty's hold on the island.
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living in the mountains. Though the two trails rarely overlap, they are often referred to by the same name.
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shipwrecked off the southeast coast of Taiwan. They were killed by the local
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