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

[207] Compare Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. I., p. 271; A. R. Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, pp. 87-91, American Ed.

[208] See also in Notes and Queries on C. and J., Vol. III., pp. 115, 129, 139, 147, 150, 170.

[209] From calculations of Humboldt it was estimated that the productiveness of this plant as compared with wheat is as 133 to 1, and as against potatoes, 44 to 1.

[210] Compare Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. I., p. 197.

[211] The application of this name to the jujube plum by foreigners, because the kind cured in honey resembled Arabian dates in color, size, and taste when brought on the table, is a good instance of the manner in which errors arise and are perpetuated from mere carelessness.

[212] Compare Dr. H. F. Hance, in Journal of Botany, Vol. IX., p. 38.

[213] Travels in Siberia, Vol. II., p. 151.

[214] Wanderings in China.

[215] Chinese Repository, Vol. VII., p. 393.

[216] Mélanges Orientales, Posthumes, p. 215.