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0098 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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thirty-seven tribes dependent on the ancient state of Nan-Chao and occupied the
territory of the sub-prefectures of Kiang-Chuen (Ch'êng-kiang fu) and of Si-ngo
(Lin-ngan fu). They submitted to China at the beginning of the Yuen Dynasty ; their
country bordered upon Burma (Mien-tien) and Ch'ê-li or Kiang-Hung (Xieng-Hung),
in Yun-Nan, on the right bank of the Mekong River. According to Chinese tradi-
tion, the Pa-y descended from Muong Tsiu-ch'u, ninth son of Ti Muong-tsiu, son of
Piao-tsiu-ti (Asôka). Devéria gives (p. 105) a specimen of the Pa-y writing (16th
century). (Devéria, Front., 99, 117 ; Bourne, Report, p. 88.) Chapter iv. of the
Chinese work, Sze-i-kwan-Pao, is devoted to the Pa-y, including the sub-divisions of
Muong-Yang, Muong-Ting, Nan-tien, Tsien-ngaï, Lung-chuen, Wei-yuan, Wan-tien,
Chen-k'ang, Ta-how, Mang-shi, Kin-tung, Ho-tsin, Cho-lo tien. (Devéria, Mél. de
Harlez, p. 97.) I give a specimen of Pa-yi writing from a Chinese work purchased by
Father Amiot at Peking, now in the Paris National Library (Fonds chinois, No. 986).
(See on this scrip, F. W. K. Müller, T'oung-Pao, III. p. 1, and V. p. 329; E. H.
Parker, The Muong Language, China Review, I. 1891, p. 267 ; P. Lefèvre-Pontalis,
Etudes sur quelques alphabets et vocab. Thaïs, T'oung Pao, III. pp. 39-64.)—H. C.]
These ethnological matters have to be handled cautiously, for there is great
ambiguity in the nomenclature. Thus Man-tzŭ is often used generically for aborigines,
and the Lolos of Richthofen are called Man-tzŭ by Garnier and Blakiston ; whilst
Lalo again has in Yun-nan apparently a very comprehensive generic meaning, and is
so used by Garnier. (Richt. Letter VII. 67-68 and MS. notes ; Garnier, I. 519 seqq.
[T. W. Kingsmill, Han Wu-ti, China Review, XXV. 103-109.])

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Concerning the Province of Carajan.

When you have passed that River you enter on the pro-
vince of Carajan, which is so large that it includes
seven kingdoms. It lies towards the west; the people
are Idolaters, and they are subject to the Great Kaan.
A son of his, however, is there as King of the country,
by name Essentimur; a very great and rich and
puissant Prince; and he well and justly rules his
dominion, for he is a wise man, and a valiant.
After leaving the river that I spoke of, you go five
days' journey towards the west, meeting with numerous
towns and villages. The country is one in which
excellent horses are bred, and the people live by cattle
and agriculture. They have a language of their own
which is passing hard to understand. At the end of
those five days' journey you come to the capital, which is