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was probably in the thirteenth century the only road to that

country.

Fifteen days from La-méng to Tagaung or Old Pagan is

not an impossible feat. Lung Ling is reached in i 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."

MARCO POLO.   VOL. II. BK. H.

LIV., p. "3.

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 Kúblái 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 franc. Ext. Orient, Oct.--Dec., 1909, p. 652.)

LVI., p. x17 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 Khm?r, 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."