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CHAP.   p. 70. TIBET WILD OXEN KIUNG TU.   83

XLVI., p. 49. They have also in this country [Tibet] plenty of fine

woollens and other stuffs, and many kinds of spices are produced there

which are never seen in our country.

Dr. Laufer draws my attention to the fact that this translation

does not give exactly the sense of the French text, which runs

thus •

" Et encore voz di qe en ceste provence a gianbelot [camelot]

assez et autres dras d'or et de soie, et hi naist maintes especes

qe unques ne furent veue en nostre pais." (Ed. Soc. de Géog.,

Chap. cxvi., p. 128.)

In the Latin text (Ibid., p. 398), we have :

" In ista provincia sunt giambelloti satis et alii panni de sirico

et auro ; et ibi nascuntur multa species qua nunquam fuerunt

vise in nostris contractis."

Francisque-Michel (Recherches, II., p. 44) says : " Les

Tartares fabriquaient aussi à Aias de trés-beaux camelots de

poil de chameau, que l'on expédiait pour divers pays, et Marco

Polo nous apprend que cette denrée était fort abondante dans le

Thibet. Au XV° siécle, il en venait de l'île de Chypre."

XLVI I., pp. 5o, 52.

WILD OXEN CALLED BE YAMINI.

Dr. Laufer writes to me : " Yule correctly identifies the ` wild

oxen ' of Tibet with the gayal (Bos gavaeus), but I do not believe

that his explanation of the word beyamini (from an artificially

constructed buemini = Bohemian) can be upheld. Polo states

expressly that these wild oxen are called beyamini (scil. by

the natives), and evidently alludes to a native Tibetan term.

The gayal is styled in Tibetan ba-men (or ba-man), derived from

ba (` cow'), a diminutive form of which is beu. Marco Polo

appears to have heard some dialectic form of this word like

beu-men-or beu-min."

XLVIII., p. 7o.

KIUNG TU AND KIEN TU.

Kiung tu or Kiang tu is Caindu in Sze-Ch'wan ; Kien tu is

in Yun Nan. Cf. PELLIOT, Bul. Ecole franc. Ext. Orient,

July—Sept., 1904, p. 771. Caindu or Ning Yuan was, under the

Mongols, a dependency of Yun Nan, not of Sze Ch'wan.

(PELLIOT.)