[10] Report by Dr. W. A. P. Martin in Journal of N. C. Branch of R. A. Society, Vol. III., pp. 33-38; 1866. Same journal, Vol. IV., pp. 80-86; 1867; Notes by Ney Elias. Pumpelly’s Researches, 1866, chap. v., pp. 41-51.
[11] See the account of Père Laribe’s voyage on this river in 1843, Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, Tome XVII., pp. 207, 286, ff. Five Months on the Yang-tsze, by Capt. Thos. W. Blakiston; London, 1862. Pumpelly’s Researches, chap. ii., pp. 4-10. Capt. Gill, The River of Golden Sand.
[12] Staunton’s Embassy, Vol. III., p. 233. Blakiston’s Yang-tsze, p. 294, etc. Chinese Repository, Vol. II., p. 316.
[13] Prejevalsky, From Kulja Across the Tien shan to Lob-nor, p. 99.
[14] Chinese Repository, Vol. V., p. 337; Vol. X., pp. 351, 371. Williams’ Chinese Commercial Guide, fifth edition, second part, 1863.
[15] Rémusat (Nouveaux Mélanges, Tome I., p. 9) adds a fourth basin, that of the Sagalien. The latter, however, scarcely deserves the name, having so many interrupting cross-chains.
[16] Penny Cyclopædia, Vol. VII., p. 74. McCulloch’s Geographical Dictionary, Vol. I., p. 596.
[17] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 136.
[18] Sketches of China, Vol. I., p. 245.
[19] Klaproth, Mémoires, Tome III., p. 312 sqq. De Guignes’ Voyages à Peking, Tome II., p. 195. Davis’s Sketches, Vol. I., passim.