It Is Also An Important Place For The Collection Of
The Revenue On Salt, As Polo Notices.
This identification of Tinju with
Hsien-nue-miao would clear up any uncertainty as to Polo's journey, and
would make a natural route for Polo to take from Kao yu to Yangchow if he
wished to see an important place between these two cities."
LXVIII., p. 154.
YANG CHAU.
In a text of the Yuen tien chang, dated 1317, found by Prof. Pelliot,
mention is made of a certain Ngao-la-han [Abraham?] still alive at Yang
chau, who was, according to the text, the son of the founder of the
Church of the Cross of the arkaeguen (Ye-li-k'o-wen she-tze-sze), one of
the three Nestorian churches of Yang-chau mentioned by Odoric and omitted
by Marco Polo. Cf. Cathay, II., p. 210, and PELLIOT, T'oung Pao, 1914,
p. 638.
LXX., p. 167.
SIEGE OF SAIANFU.
Prof. E.H. PARKER writes in the Journ. of the North China Branch of the
Roy. As. Soc., XXXVII., 1906, p. 195: "Colonel Yule's note requires some
amendment, and he has evidently been misled by the French translations.
The two Mussulmans who assisted Kublai with guns were not 'A-la-wa-ting of
Mu-fa-li and Ysemain of Huli or Hiulie,' but A-la-pu-tan of Mao-sa-li and
Y-sz-ma-yin of Shih-la. Shih-la is Shiraz, the Serazy of Marco Polo, and
Mao-sa-li is Mosul.
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