Its Circumference, According To Martini, Is 500 Li.
The Cut (P. 68), From Garnier, Shows This Lake As Seen From A Villa On Its
Banks.
[Deveria (p. 129) quotes this passage from the Yuen-shi-lei pien:
"Yachi, of which the U-man or
Black Barbarians made their capital, is
surrounded by Lake Tien-chi on three sides." Tien-chi is one of the names
of Lake Kwen-ming, on the shore of which is built Yun-nan fu. - H.C.]
Returning now to the Karajang of the Mongols, or Carajan, as Polo writes
it, we shall find that the latter distinguishes this great province, which
formerly, he says, included seven kingdoms, into two Mongol Governments,
the seat of one being at Yachi, which we have seen to be Yun-nan fu, and
that of the other at a city to which he gives the name of the Province,
and which we shall find to be the existing Ta-li fu. Great confusion has
been created in most of the editions by a distinction in the form of the
name as applied to these two governments. Thus Ramusio prints the province
under Yachi as Carajan, and that under Ta-li as Carazan, whilst
Marsden, following out his system for the conversion of Ramusio's
orthography, makes the former Karaian and the latter Karazan. Pauthier
prints Caraian all through, a fact so far valuable as showing that his
texts make no distinction between the names of the two governments, but
the form impedes the recognition of the old Mongol nomenclature.
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