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Cathay and the Way Thither : vol.2 |
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270 CONTEMPORARY NOTICES OF CATHAY
dwells there. The Amir Khwaja called Yasam is chief there.'
1 I suspect the true reading here should be Kamchû, the city of Kancheu in the province of Kansu, which Marco describes under the name of Canpicion, " chief and capital of the whole province of Tangut."
The correct division of the empire into the Twelve Sing is thus given by Pauthier and Klaproth from the annals of the Yuen dynasty :
i. The Central Province, embracing the modern Shantung, Shansi, Pecheli, Honan north of the Hoang Ho, and part of Mongolia; capital, TATU or Peking. II. Province of the Northern Mountains ; cap., Holin or KARAKORUM. III. LIAOYANG, embracing the modern Liaotung, and a good deal more to the north. Cap. of same name. iv. HONAN, comprising the remainder of the modern province, with that part of Kiangnan which is north of the Kiang, and the greater part of Hukwang north of the Kiang. Cap., Pianliang, now KHAIFUNGFU. V. SHENSI, comprising the modern province with the greater part of Kansu to the right of the Hoang-ho, and part of the Ortu territory. The capital was Kingchao, now SINGANFU. VI. SZECHUEN, embraced also parts of Hukwang and Kweicheu. Cap., CHINGTU. VII. KANSUH, cap., KANCHEU. VIII. YUNNAN, the modern province with part of Kweicheu, and parts of Tibet and Burma. Cap., Chungking, hod., YUNNANFU. Ix. KIANGCHE, embracing Chekiang, Kiangnan south of the Kiang, and the eastern part of Kiangsi. Cap., HANGCHEUFU, called also KINGSSE, or Capital. x. KIANGSI, Cap. Lunghing, now NANCHANGFU. XI. HUKWANG, cap., WUCHANG (Klaproth says Changshafu). xII. CHING-TUNG, which comprised the kingdom of Corea. A table will better show the discrepancies between Rashid and the Chinese official statements.
THE XII SING OF THE YUEN EMPIRE.
From Rashid.
1. Khanbaligh or Daidu
Churché and Solanka, i.e. Man- Nanking [churia
Kenjangfu Lukinfu ? Kamchu Karajang Khingsai
Chinkalan (Canton) or Lumkali
Kaoli (Corea) Fuchu
5. Sukchu
Fokien or Fuchu was, previous to 1285, and again at a later period, a separate province, which accounts for Rashid's making it one of the
From Pauthier.
Central Province (Tatu)
Northern Mountains (Mongolia)
Liaoyang (including Manchuria) 2.
Honan .
Shensi .
Szechuen
Kansuh .
Yunnan .
Kiangche
Kiangsi (cap., Lunghing)
Hukwang }
Chingtung (Corea) .
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