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92   MA RCO POLO.   VOL. II. BK. II.

et le sel se dépose. Les cendres des herbes servent á une autre

opération. 2° L'eau de mer est simplement évaporée au soleil. . . .

L'administrateur en chef de ce commerce est le Vice-roi même de

la province de Tche-li." (P. HOANG, Sel, Variétés Sinologiques,

No. 15, P. 3.)

LXI., pp. 136, 138.

SANGON- T'SIANG KIUN.

Le titre chinois de tsiang kiun ` général ' apparait toujours

dans les inscriptions de l'Orkhon sous la forme säriün, et dans les

manuscrits turcs de Tourfan on trouve sangun .; ces formes

avaient prévalu en Asie centrale et c'est á elles que répond le

sangon de Marco Polo" (éd. Yule-Cordier, IL, 136, 138). PELLIOT,

Kao tch'ang, J. As., Mai-Juin, 1912, p. 584 n.

61.  p. 138.

LITAN.

" For Li T'an's rebellion and the siege of Ts'i-nan, see the

Yiian Shih, c. v, fol. I, 2 ; C. ccvi, fol. 2r° ; and c. cxviii, fol. 5rß.

From the last passage it appears that Aibuga, the father of

King George of Tenduc, took some part in the siege. Prince

Ha-pi-ch'i and Shih T'ien-tsé, but not, that I have seen, Agul

or Mangutai, are mentioned in the Yüan Shíh." (A. C. MOULE,

T'oung Pao, July, 1915, p. 417.)

62.  p. 139.

SINJUMATU

This is Ts'i ping chau. " Sinjumatu was on a navigable

stream, as Marco Polo expressly states and as its name implies. It

was not long after i 276, as we learn from the Yiian Shih (lxiv),

that Kúblái carried out very extensive improvements in the water-

ways of this very region, and there is nothing improbable in the

supposition that the ina-t'ou or landing-place had moved up to

the more important town, so that the name of Chi chou had

become in common speech Sinjumatu (Hsin-chou-ma-t'ou) by

the time that Marco Polo got to know the place." (A. C. MOULE,

Marco Polo's Sinjumatu, T'oung Pao, July, 1912, pp. 431-3.)

LXII., p. 139 n.

GREAT CANAL.

" Et si voz di qu'il ont un Huns dou quel il ont grant profit

et voz dirai cornant. Il est voir qe ceste grant Huns vient de ver