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was probably in the thirteenth century the only road to that
country.
" Fifteen days from La-mêng to Tagaung or Old Pagan is
not an impossible feat. Lung Ling is reached in 1½ days, Keng
Yang in four, and it is possible to do the remaining distance
about a couple of hundred miles in eleven days, making fifteen
in all.
" I confess I do not see how any one could march to Pagan in
Latitude 21° 13' in fifteen days."

LIV., p. 113.

NGA-TSHAUNG-GYAN.

According to the late E. HUBER, Ngan chen kue is not Nga-
çaung-khyam, but Nga Singu, in the Mandalay district. The
battle took place, not in the Yung Ch'ang plain, but in the
territory of the Shan Chief of Nan-tien. The official description
of China under the Ming (Ta Ming yi t'ung che, k. 87, 38 v°)
tells us that Nan-tien before its annexation by Kúbláï Khan,
bore the name of Nan Sung or Nang Sung, and to-day the pass
which cuts this territory in the direction of T'eng Yueh is called
Nang-Sung-kwan. It is hardly possible to doubt that this is the
place called Nga-çaung-khyam by the Burmese Chronicles.
(Bul. Ecole franç. Ext. Orient, Oct.-Dec., 1909, p. 652.)

LVI., p. 117 n.

A Map in the Yun Nan Topography Section 9, "Tu-ssu" or
Sawbwas, marks the Kingdom of "Eight hundred wives" between
the mouths of the Irrawaddy and the Salween Rivers. (Note
kindly sent by Mr. H. A. OTTEWILL.)

LIX., p. 128.

CAUGIGU.

M. Georges Maspero, L'Empire Khmèr, p. 77 n., thinks that
Canxigu = Luang Prabang ; I read Caugigu and I believe it is
a transcription of Kiao-Chi Kwé, see p. 131.

LIX., pp. 128, 131.

" I have identified, II., p. 131, Caugigu with Kiao-Chi kwé
(Kiao Chi), i.e. Tung King." Hirth and Rockhill (Chau Ju-kua,
p. 46 n.) write : " 'Kiáu chi' is certainly the original of Marco
Polo's Caugigu and of Rashideddin's Kafchi kué."