1, 2; c. ccvi, fol. 2x deg.; and c. cxviii, fol. 5r'o. From the
last passage it appears that Aibuga, the father of King George of Tenduc,
took some part in the siege. Prince Ha-pi-ch'i and Shih T'ien-tse, but not,
that I have seen, Agul or Mangutai, are mentioned in the Yuean Shih." (A.
C. MOULE, T'oung Pao, July, 1915, p. 417.)
LXII., p. 139.
SINJUMATU
This is Ts'i ning chau. "Sinjumatu was on a navigable stream, as Marco
Polo expressly states and as its name implies. It was not long after 1276,
as we learn from the Yuean Shih (lxiv), that Kublai carried out very
extensive improvements in the waterways of this very region, and there is
nothing improbable in the supposition that the ma-t'ou or landing-place
had moved up to the more important town, so that the name of Chi chou had
become in common speech Sinjumatu (Hsin-chou-ma-t'ou) by the time that
Marco Polo got to know the place." (A.C. MOULE, Marco Polo's Sinjumatu,
T'oung Pao, July, 1912, pp. 431-3.)
LXII., p. 139 n.
GREAT CANAL.
"Et si voz di qu'il ont un fluns dou quel il ont grant profit et voz dirai
comant. Il est voir qe ceste grant fluns vient de ver midi jusque a ceste
cite de Singuimatu, et les homes de la ville cest grant fluns en ont fait
deus:
