[5] Ibid., p. 20.
[6] Ming Shi, Ch. 81, p. 1.—The same text is found on a bill issued in 1375 reproduced and translated by W. Vissering (On Chinese Currency, see plate at end of volume), the minister of finance being expressly ordered to use the fibres of the mulberry tree in the composition of these bills.
[7] Mémoires relatifs à l’Asie, Vol. I., p. 387.
[8] A. Wylie, Notes on Chinese Literature, p. 64. The copy used by me (in the John Crerar Library of Chicago) is an old manuscript clearly written in 4 vols. and chapters, illustrated by nine ink-sketches of types of Mohammedans and a map. The volumes are not paged.
[9] Ancient Khotan, Vol. I., p. 134.
[10] Mikroskopische Untersuchung alter ostturkestanischer Papiere, p. 9 (Vienna, 1902). I cannot pass over in silence a curious error of this scholar when he says (p. 8) that it is not proved that Cannabis sativa (called by him “genuine hemp”) is cultivated in China, and that the so-called Chinese hemp-paper should be intended for China grass. Every tyro in things Chinese knows that hemp (Cannabis sativa) belongs to the oldest cultivated plants of the Chinese, and that hemp-paper is already listed among the papers invented by Ts’ai Lun in A.D. 105 (cf. Chavannes, Les livres chinois avant l’invention du papier, Journal Asiatique, 1905, p. 6 of the reprint).
[11] Ch. B., p. 10b (ed. of Pie hia chai ts’ung shu).
[12] The Persian word for the mulberry, tūd, is supposed to be a loan-word from Aramaic. (Horn, Grundriss iran. Phil., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 6.)