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

[60] Medhurst’s China, its State and Prospects, p. 393.

[61] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 149. Cathay and the Way Thither, p. cxciii. Reinaud, Relations des Voyages faits par les Arabes dans l’Inde et à la Chine, etc. (Paris, 1845), Tome I., p. 19.

[62] Borget, La Chine Ouverte, p. 126.

[63] Chinese Repository, Vol. IV., p. 92.

[64] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., pp. 183-185, etc. A Turkish geography, printed at Constantinople, describes this port under the name of Zeitoun. Compare Klaproth, Mémoires sur l’Asie, Tome II., p. 208. See further, Chinese Recorder, Vol. III., p. 87; Vol. IV., p. 77; Vol. V., p. 327, and Vol. VI., p. 31, sqq.

[65] Chinese Repository, Vol. XV., pp. 185, 225.

[66] The Boston Missionary Herald for 1845 (p. 87) contains a notice of the “White Deer Cavern,” in the neighborhood.

[67] Chinese Repository, Vol. XI., p. 506.

[68] Chinese Repository, Vol. XII., p. 530; Fortune’s Tea Districts, chaps. xiv. and xv.

[69] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 186.