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ary. 3. Want of a good Survey of Hang-chau. The Squares. 4. Marco ignores pork. 5. Great Pears: Peaches. 6. Textual. 7. Chinese use of Pepper. 8. Chinese claims to a character for Good Faith. 9. Pleasure-parties on the Lake. 10. Chinese Carriages. 11. The Sung Emperor. 12. The Sung Palace. Extracts regarding this Great City from other mediaeval writers, European and Asiatic. Martini's Description. LXXVIII.--TREATING OF THE YEARLY REVENUE THAT THE GREAT KAAN HATH FROM KINSAY NOTES.--1. Textual. 2. Calculations as to the values spoken of. LXXIX.--OF THE CITY OF TANPIJU AND OTHERS NOTES.--1. Route from Hang-chau southward. 2. Bamboos. 3. Identification of places. Chang-shan the key to the route. LXXX.--CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF FUJU NOTES.--1. "Fruit like Saffron." 2. 3. Cannibalism ascribed to Mountain Tribes on this route. 4 Kien-ning fu. 5. Galingale. 6. Fleecy Fowls. 7. Details of the Journey in Fo-kien and various readings. 8. Unken. Introduction of Sugar-refining into China. LXXXI.--CONCERNING THE GREATNESS OF THE CITY OF FUJU NOTES.--1. The name _Chonka_, applied to Fo-kien here. _Cayton_ or _Zayton_. 2. Objections that have been made to identity of _Fuju_ and Fu-chau. 3. The Min River. LXXXII.--OF THE CITY AND GREAT HAVEN OF ZAYTON NOTES.--1. The Camphor Laurel. 2. The Port of Zayton or T'swan-chau; Recent objections to this identity. Probable origin of the word Satin. 3. Chinese Consumption of Pepper. 4. Artists in Tattooing. 5. Position of the Porcelain manufacture spoken of. Notions regarding the _Great River_ of China. 6. Fo-kien dialects and variety of spoken language in China. 7. From Ramusio. BOOK THIRD. Japan, the Archipelago, Southern India, and the Coasts and Islands of the Indian Sea. I.--OF THE MERCHANT SHIPS OF MANZI THAT SAIL UPON THE INDIAN SEAS NOTES.--1. Pine Timber. 2. Rudder and Masts. 3. Watertight Compartments. 4. Chinese substitute for Pitch. 5. Oars used by Junks. 6. Descriptions of Chinese Junks from other Mediaeval Writers. II.--DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF CHIPANGU, AND THE GREAT KAAN'S DESPATCH OF A HOST AGAINST IT. NOTES.--1. Chipangu or Japan. 2. Abundance of Gold. 3. The Golden Palace. 4. Japanese Pearls. Red Pearls. III.--WHAT FURTHER CAME OF THE GREAT KAAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHIPANGU NOTES.--1. Kublai's attempts against Japan. Japanese Narrative of the Expedition here spoken of.
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