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CHAP. xxxvil. p. 191.   PEIN.   45

MM. de Rhins and Grenard, probably furnishes a clue to the

ancient Chinese name of Yu-t'ien." (E. H. PARKER, Asiatic

Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, p. 143.)

XXXVII., p. 190 n.

Stein has devoted a whole chapter of his Sand-buried Ruins

of Khotan, Chap. XVI., pp. 256 seq. to Yotkan, the Site of the

Ancient Capital.

XXXVII., p. 191, n. I.

PEIN.

" It is a mistake to suppose that the earlier pilgrim Fa-hien

(A.D. 400) followed the ` directer route ' from China ; he was

obliged to go to Kao ch'ang, and then turn sharp south to

Khoten." (E. H. PARKER, Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904,

P. 143.)

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XXXVII., p. 192.

I have embodied, in Vol. II., p. 595, of Marco Polo, some of

the remarks of Sir Aurel Stein regarding Pein and Uzun Tati.

In Ancient Khotan, I., pp. 462-3, he has given further evidence of

the identity of Uzun Tati and P'i mo, and he has discussed the

position of Ulūg-Ziārat, probably the Han mo of Sung Yun.

XXXVII., p. 191 ; II., p. 595.

" Keriya, the Pein of Marco Polo and Pimo of Hwen Tsiang,

writes Huntington, is a pleasant district, with a population of

about fifteen thousand souls." Huntington discusses (p. 387) the

theory of Stein :

" Stein identifies Pimo or Pein, with ancient Kenan, the site

. . . now known as Uzun Tetti or Ulugh Mazar, north of Chira.

This identification is doubtful, as appears from the following

table of distances given by Hwen Tsiang, which is as accurate as

could be expected from a casual traveller. I have reckoned the

`li,' the Chinese unit of distance, as equivalent to 0.26 of a mile.

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Names of Places.   •   True Distance.

   Khotan (Yutien) to Keriya (Pimo) .   .   97 miles.

Distance according to Hwen Tsiang.

330 li.   86 miles.

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Keriya (Pimo) to Niya (Niyang)   .   •   .

Niya (Niyang) to Endereh (Tuholo)   .   •
Endereh (Tuholo) to Kotāk Sheri ? (Chemotona) Kotak Sheri (Chemotona) to Lulan (Nafopo) .

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" If we use the value of the ` li ' 0.274 of a mile given by