In concluding my former paper on the Manchus, I ventured to say that it condensed the history of their origin so far as it could be gathered from authorities accessible to western students, and to express a hope that new materials might enable us to clear up its crooked story. These have reached me sooner than I could have expected, and are contained in two papers by M. Gorski, who was attached to the Russian Mission at Peking, and have been published in the first and second volumes of the publications of that Mission. These two volumes have been translated into German under the title of Arbeiten der Russischen Gesandtschaft zu Peking, by Dr. Carl Abel and F. A. Mecklenburg. From this translation I shall give the following account, on which I am dependent entirely as to all new facts and authorities.