Twenty li from Kiang-shan is Ching-hu,
the head of the navigation of the T'sien-T'ang river. Here one hires chairs
and coolies for the journey over the Sien-hia Pass to Pu-cheng, a distance
of 215 li. From Pu-cheng, Fu-chau can be reached by water in 4 or 5 days.
The distance is 780 li." - H.C.]
[1] "Est sus un mont que parte le Flum, gue le une moitie ala en sus e
l'autre moitie en jus" (G.T.).
[2] One of the Hien, forming the special districts of Hang-Chau itself,
now called Tsien-tang, was formerly called Tang-wei-tang. But it
embraces the eastern part of the district, and can, I think, have
nothing to do with Tanpiju. (See Biot, p. 257, and Chin. Repos.
for February, 1842, p. 109.)
CHAPTER LXXX.
CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF FUJU.
On leaving Cuju, which is the last city of the kingdom of Kinsay, you
enter the kingdom of FUJU, and travel six days in a south-easterly
direction through a country of mountains and valleys, in which are a
number of towns and villages with great plenty of victuals and abundance
of game. Lions, great and strong, are also very numerous.
