Varietate, VII. 33; Alb. Mag. Opera, 1551, II.
227, 233; Fr. Michel, Recherches, etc., II. 91; Gerv. of Tilbury, p.
13; N. et E. II. 493; D. des Tissus, II. 1-12; J. N. China Branch R.
A. S., December, 1867, p. 70.) [Berger de Xivrey, Traditions
teratologiques, 457-458, 460-463. - H. C.]
[1] The late Mr. Atkinson has been twice alluded to in this note. I take
the opportunity of saying that Mr. Ney Elias, a most competent judge,
who has travelled across the region in question whilst admitting, as
every one must, Atkinson's vagueness and sometimes very careless
statements, is not at all disposed to discredit the truth of his
narrative.
CHAPTER XLIII.
OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR.
On leaving the province of which I spoke before,[NOTE 1] you ride ten days
between north-east and east, and in all that way you find no human
dwelling, or next to none, so that there is nothing for our book to speak
of.
At the end of those ten days you come to another province called SUKCHUR,
in which there are numerous towns and villages. The chief city is called
SUKCHU.[NOTE 2] The people are partly Christians and partly Idolaters, and
all are subject to the Great Kaan.
The great General Province to which all these three provinces belong is
called TANGUT.
