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[36] Compare the _Annales de la Foi_, Tome X., p. 100, for interesting details concerning the Romish missionaries in Peking. Also Pauthier’s _Chine Moderne_, pp. 8-36 (Paris, 1852), containing an excellent map. Bretschneider’s _Archeological and Historical Researches on Peking_, etc., published in the _Chinese Recorder_, Vol. VI. (1875, passim). _Mémoires concernant l’Histoire, les Sciences, les Arts, les Moeurs, les Usages, etc., des Chinois, par les Missionnaires de Pekin_; 16 vols., Paris, 1797-1814. N. B. Dennys, _Notes for Tourists in the North of China_; Hongkong, 1866.

[37] _Journal of Lord Amherst’s Embassy to China_, 2d ed., p. 22. London, 1840.

[38] _Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China_, Vol. I., p. 293. London, 1827.

[39] Williamson, _Journeys in North China_, Vol. II., p. 90.

[40] _Journal of the Roy. Geog. Soc._, 1874. Yule’s _Marco Polo_, Vol. I., pp. 263-268. _Cathay and the Way Thither_, Vol. I., p. 134. Gerbillon, _Mémoires concernant les Chinois_ (Astley’s ed.), Vol. IV., pp. 701-716. _Journal Asiatique_, Ser. II., Tome XI., p. 345. Huc, _Tartary, etc._, Vol. I., p. 34, 2d ed., London.

[41] Sir G. L. Staunton, _Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China_. 2 vols. Lond., 1796.

[42] _Annales de la Foi_, 1844, Tome XVI., p. 421.

[43] _Sketches of China_, Vol. I., p. 257.

[44] _Chinese Repository_, Vol. IV., pp. 308-335. W. H. Medhurst’s _China_, chaps. xv.-xix.

[45] Richthofen, _China_. Band I. S. 68. Rev. Arthur Smith, _Glimpses of Travel in the Middle Kingdom_. Shanghai, 1875.

[46] The curious reader can consult the article by Mayer, in Vol. XII. of the _North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society’s Journal_, 1878, for the meaning of these various objects.

[47] _Five Years in China_, Nashville, Tenn., 1860. See also _Voyages of the Nemesis_, pp. 450-452, for further details of this city in 1842; the _Chinese Repository_, Vols. I., p. 257, and XIII., p. 261, contain more details on the Pagoda.

[48] _Travels in China._

[49] Capt. G. G. Loch, _Events in China_, p. 74.

[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.

[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.

[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.