Afterwards (1261) The Twan Are Known As The Eleven
Tsung-Kwan (Governors); The Last Of Them, Twan Ming, Was Made A Prisoner
By An Army Sent By The Ming Emperors, And Sent To Nan-King (1381).
(E. H.
Parker, Early Laos and China, China Review, XIX.
And the Old Thai or Shan
Empire of Western Yun-Nan, Ibid., XX.; E. Rocher, Hist. des Princes du
Yunnan, T'oung Pao, 1899; E. Chavannes, Une Inscription du roy de Nan
Tchao, J.A., November-December, 1900; M. Tchang, Tableau des Souverains
de Nan-Tchao, Bul. Ecole Franc. d'Ext. Orient, I. No. 4.) - H.C.] The city
of Ta-li was taken by Kublai in 1253-1254. The circumstance that it was
known to the invaders (as appeals from Polo's statement) by the name of the
province is an indication of the fact that it was the capital of Carajan
before the conquest. ["That Yachi and Carajan represent Yuennan-fu and
Tali, is proved by topographical and other evidence of an overwhelming
nature. I venture to add one more proof, which seems to have been
overlooked.
"If there is a natural feature which must strike any visitor to those two
cities, it is that they both lie on the shore of notable lakes, of so
large an extent as to be locally called seas; and for the comparison, it
should be remembered that the inhabitants of the Yuennan province have easy
access to the ocean by the Red River, or Sung Ka. Now, although Marco does
not circumstantially specify the fact of these cities lying on large
bodies of water, yet in both cases, two or three sentences further on,
will be found mention of lakes; in the case of Yachi, 'a lake of a good
hundred miles in compass' - by no means an unreasonable estimate.
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