It flows to the Ocean Sea.
There is no more to be said about this river, so I will now tell you about
another province called Carajan, as you shall hear in what follows.
NOTE 1. - Ramusio's version here enlarges: "Don't suppose from my saying
towards the west that these countries really lie in what we call the
west, but only that we have been travelling from regions in the
east-north-east towards the west, and hence we speak of the countries we
come to as lying towards the west."
NOTE 2. - Chinese authorities quoted by Ritter mention mother-o'-pearl as
a product of Lithang, and speak of turquoises as found in Djaya to the
west of Bathang. (Ritter, IV. 235-236.) Neither of these places is,
however, within the tract which we believe to be Caindu. Amyot states that
pearls are found in a certain river of Yun-nan. (See Trans.R.A.Soc.
II. 91.)
NOTE 3. - This alleged practice, like that mentioned in the last chapter
but one, is ascribed to a variety of people in different parts of the
world. Both, indeed, have a curious double parallel in the story of two
remote districts of the Himalaya which was told to Bernier by an old
Kashmiri. (See Amst. ed.
