[3] This Work Is Also The First That Contains The Word A-La-Ki, From Arabic 'araq.

(See T'oung Pao, 1916, p, 483.)

[4] A range of mountains separating Shan Si from Chi li and Ho Nan.

[5] This is probably a phantasy. We can make nothing of it, as it is not stated how the adulterated wine was made.

[6] This possibly is the earliest Chinese allusion to alcohol.

BOOK SECOND. - CONTINUED.

PART III. - JOURNEY SOUTHWARD THROUGH EASTERN PROVINCES OF CATHAY AND MANZI.

LX., p. 133.

CH'ANG LU.

The Rev. A.C. MOULE (T'oung Pao, July, 1915, p. 417) says that "Ciang lu [Ch'anglu] was not, I think, identical with Ts'ang chou," but does not give any reason in support of this opinion.

CH'ANG LU SALT.

"To this day the sole name for this industry, the financial centre of which is T'ien Tsin, is the 'Ch'ang-lu Superintendency.'" (E.H. PARKER, As. Quart. Review, Jan., 1904, p. 147.) "The 'Ch'ang-lu,' or Long Reed System, derives its name from the city Ts'ang chou, on the Grand Canal (south of T'ientsin), once so called. In 1285 Kublai Khan 'once more divided the Ho-kien (Chih-li) and Shan Tung interests,' which, as above explained, are really one in working principle. There is now a First Class Commissary at Tientsin, with sixteen subordinates, and the Viceroy (who until recent years resided at Pao ting fu) has nominal supervision." (PARKER, China, 1901, pp. 223-4.)

"Il y a 10 groupes de salines, Tch'ang, situes dans les districts de Fou ning hien, Lo t'ing hien, Loan tcheou, Fong joen hien, Pao tch'e hien, T'ien tsin hien, Tsing hai hien, Ts'ang tcheou et Yen chan hien. Il y a deux procedes employes pour la fabrication du sel: 1 deg. On etale sur un sol uni des cendres d'herbes venues dans un terrain sale et on les arrose d'eau de mer; le liquide qui s'en ecoule, d'une densite suffisante pour faire flotter un ceuf de poule ou des graines de nenuphar, Che lien, est chauffe pendant 24 heures avec de ces memes herbes employees comme combustible, et le sel se depose. Les cendres des herbes servent a une autre operation. 2 deg. L'eau de mer est simplement evaporee au soleil.... L'administrateur en chef de ce commerce est le Vice-roi meme de la province de Tche-li." (P. HOANG, Sel, Varietes Sinologiques, No. 15, p. 3.)

LXI., pp. 136, 138.

SANGON - T'SIANG KIUN.

"Le titre chinois de tsiang kiun 'general' apparait toujours dans les inscriptions de l'Orkhon sous la forme saenuen, et dans les manuscrits turcs de Tourfan on trouve sangun; ces formes avaient prevalu en Asie centrale et c'est a elles que repond le sangon de Marco Polo" (ed. Yule-Cordier, II., 136, 138). PELLIOT, Kao tch'ang, J. As., Mai-Juin, 1912, p. 584 n.

LXI., p. 138.

LITAN.

"For Li T'an's rebellion and the siege of Ts'i-nan, see the Yuean Shih, c. v, fol. 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: car il font l'une moitie aler ver levant, et l'autre moitie aler ver ponent: ce est qe le un vait au Mangi, et le autre por le Catai. Et si voz di por verite que ceste ville a si grant navile, ce est si grant quantite, qe ne est nul qe ne veisse qe peust croire. Ne entendes qe soient grant nes, mes eles sunt tel come besogne au grant fluns, et si voz di qe ceste naville portent au Mangi e por le Catai si grant abondance de mercandies qe ce est mervoille; et puis quant elles revienent, si tornent encore cargies, et por ce est merveieliosse chouse a veoir la mercandie qe por celle fluns se porte sus et jus." (Marco Polo, Soc. de Geog., p. 152.)

LXIV., p. 144.

CAIJU.

The Rev. A.C. Moule writes (T'oung Pao, July, 1915, p. 415): "Hai chou is the obvious though by no means perfectly satisfactory equivalent of Caigiu. For it stands not on, but thirty or forty miles from, the old bed of the river. A place which answers better as regards position is Ngan tung which was a chou (giu) in the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. The Kuang-yue-hsing-sheng, Vol. II., gives Hai Ngan as the old name of Ngan Tung in the Eastern Wei Dynasty."

LXIV., p. 144 n.

"La voie des transports du tribut n'etait navigable que de Hang tcheou au fleuve Jaune, [Koublai] la continua jusqu'aupres de sa capitale. Les travaux commencerent en 1289 et trois ans apres on en faisait l'ouverture. C'etait un ruban de plus de (1800) mille huit cents li (plus de 1000 kil.). L'etendue de ce Canal, qui merite bien d'etre appele imperial (Yu ho), de Hang Tcheou a Peking, mesure pres de trois mille li, c'est-a-dire plus de quatre cents lieues." GANDAR, Le Canal Imperial, 1894, pp. 21-22.

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