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g6   MARCO POLO.   VOL. II. BK. II.

The massacre of the Alans took place, according to Chinese

sources, at Chen-ch'ao, not at Ch'ang chau. The Sung general

who was in charge of the city, Hung Fu, after making a faint

submission, got the Alans drunk at night and had them

slaughtered. Cf. PELLIOT, Chrétiens d'Asie centrale et d' Extreme-

Orient, T'oung Pao, Dec., 1914, p. 641.

LXXVI., pp. 184-5.

VUJU, VUGHIN, CHANGAN.

The Rev. A. C. Moule has given in the T'oung Pao, July,

1915, pp. 393 seq., the Itinerary between Lin Ngan (Hang Chau)

and Shang Tu, followed by the Sung Dynasty officials who

accompanied their Empress Dowager to the Court of Kúblái

after the fall of Hang Chau in 1276 ; the diary was written by

Yen Kwang-ta, a native of Shao Hing, who was attached to the

party.

The Rev. A. C. Moule in his notes writes, p. 41 I : " The

connexion between Hu-chou and Hang-chou is very intimate,

and the north suburb of the latter, the Hu-shu, was known in

Marco Polo's day as the Hu-chou shih. The identification of

Vughin with Wu-chiang is fairly satisfactory, but it is perhaps

worth while to point out that there is a place called Wu chén

about fifty li north of Shih-mén ; and for Ciangan there is a

tempting place called Ch'ang-an chén just south of Shih-mén

on a canal which was often preferred to the T'ang hsi route until

the introduction of steam boats."

LXXVI., p. 192.   There is one church only [at Kinsay], belonging

to the Nestorian Christians."

It was one of the seven churches built in China by Mar

Sarghis, called Ta p' it hing sze (Great Temple of Universal

Success), or Yang yi Hu-mu-la, near the Tsien Piao men. Cf.

Marco Polo, II., p. 177 ; VISSIÈRE, Rev. du Monde Musulman,

March, 1913, p. 8.

LXXVI., p. 193•

KINSAY.

Chinese Atlas in the Magliabecchian Library.

The Rev. A. C. MOULE has devoted a long note to this

Atlas in the Journ. R. As. Soc., July, 1919, pp. 393-395. He