[70] Commercial Relations between the U. S. and Foreign Nations. 1869.
[71] “An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan,” etc. Klaproth (Mémoires sur l’Asie, Tome I., p. 321) translates an account of this island from Chinese sources. E. C. Taintor, The Aborigines of Northern Formosa—Shanghai, 1874—read before the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Chinese Repository, Vol. II., p. 408, and Vol. V., p. 480.
[72] Annales de la Foi, 1845, Tome XVII., pp. 287, 290. See also Huc’s Travels in the Chinese Empire, Harper’s Ed., 1855, Vol. II., pp. 142-144. Pumpelly, pp. 224-226; Blakiston’s Yangtsze, p. 65; Treaty Ports of China, 1867, Art. Hankow.
[73] Usually known as the Ta-pa ling; but Baron von Richthofen found that the natives of that region “call those mountains the Kiu-tiao shan, that is the ‘nine mountain ridges,’ designating therewith the fact that the range is made up of a number of parallel ridges. This name should be retained in preference to the other.” Letter on the Provinces of Chihlí, Shansí, Shensí, etc. Shanghai, 1872. See also his China, Band II. S. 563-576; Alex. Wylie, Notes of a Journey from Chingtoo to Hankow, Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc. Vol. XIV., p. 168.
[74] See Kreitner, Im fernen Osten, p. 504. Wien, 1881.
[75] Prejevalsky’s Travels in Mongolia, Vol. II., pp. 256-266.
[76] Dip. Cor., 1874, p. 251.
[77] That this insurrection was not unprecedented we learn from a notice of a similar Mohammedan revolt here in 1784. Nouvelles Lettres Edifiantes des Missions de la Chine, Tome II., p. 23.
[78] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 23.
[79] Chinese Repository, Vol. XIX., pp. 317 and 394. Annales de la Foi, Tome III., pp. 369-381, and Tome IV., pp. 409-415. Letter by Baron Richthofen on the Provinces of Chihlí, Shansí, Shensí, Sz’chuen, etc. Shanghai, 1872. Kreitner, Im fernen Osten, pp. 780-829.