The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) / A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants

by S. Wells Williams

[50] Mentioned by Marco Polo. Yule’s edition, Vol. II., p. 137.

[51] Fortune’s Wanderings in China, p. 120.

[52] Davis’s Sketches, Vol. II., p. 55.

[53] See Chinese Repository, Vol. IV., p. 488; Journal of N. C. Br. R. A. Society, Vol. VI., pp. 123-128; and Chinese Recorder, Vol. I., 1869, pp. 241-248. These people are relics of tribes of Miaotsz’.

[54] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 145.

[55] Travels in China, p. 522.

[56] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 146.

[57] De Guignes, Voyages à Peking, Vol. II., pp. 65-77.

[58] Compare R. M. Martin’s China (Vol. II., p. 304), who gives considerable miscellaneous information about the open ports, previous to 1846; also Dennys’ Treaty Ports of China, 1867, pp. 326-349; Richthofen’s Letters, No. 5, 1871; Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 181; Missionary Recorder, 1869, pp. 156, 177.

[59] Milne, in Chinese Repository, Vol. XIII., p. 22, and in his Life in China, part second. London, 1857.