[90] Known as Widiharit in Pali records. Chinese Recorder, Vol. III., pp. 33, 74, sqq.; see also pp. 62, 93, 126, for the record of a visit.

[91] Annales de la Foi, Tome VIII., p. 87.

[92] Two thousand Chinese families live in Amerapura.

[93] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II. Anderson, Mandalay to Momien.

[94] Proced. Roy. Geog. Soc., Vols. XIII., p. 392, XIV., p. 335, XV., pp. 163 and 343. Col. Yule, Trade Routes to Western ChinaThe Geographical Magazine, April, 1875. Richthofen, Recent Attempts to find a direct Trade-Road to Southwestern ChinaShanghai Budget, March 26, 1874. Journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghae to Bhamo. London, 1875. Col. H. Browne in Blue Books, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 (1876-77).

[95] Klaproth (Mémoires Relatifs à l’Asie, Tome I., Paris, 1824) has translated from the Manchu a narrative of a visit made in 1677 by one of the grandees of Kanghí’s court to a summit in this range. Chinese Repository, Vol. XX., p. 296.

[96] Voyage Down the Amur, by Perry McD. Collins, in 1857. New York, 1860, chaps. xxxii.-lx., passim. Ravenstein’s Amur. Chinese Repository, Vol. XIX., p. 289. Rev. A. Williamson, Journeys in North China, Vol. II., chaps. x.-xiii.

[97] The Chinese and their Rebellions. London, 1856.

[98] Also called Yenden; Klaproth, Mémoires, Tome I., p. 446. Rémusat informs us that this name formerly included all of Kirin, or that which was placed under it.

[99] Voyages Along the Coast of China. New York, 1833.